U.S. Politics - China Not Amused

The following excerpt has been taken from an anonymous personal comment broadly published on some kind of patriotic website and that is directly linked to the main page of People's Network, the online edition of China's semi-official People's Daily. Even though the comment is marked as not necessarily representing the opinion of People's Network, I deemed it worth mentioning.



Above: U.S. President Obama and Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe on a ship carrying the flags of both countries. That picture, partly covered by the comment's title, marked the direct link from People's Network.

换一个方式去应对中日这几年来的矛盾，美国是在借日本玩弄中国吗？

Headline:
A change of style to answer the contradictions that affected China in recent years.
Is America using Japan as a pretext to play with China ?

这几年，中日之间看似有很多矛盾，在国际舞台上各自展现的时候，看似这种矛盾随时都可能会引起激烈的冲突，甚至是不可控制的冲突。至少我个人认为，这几年来中日之间所发生的重大问题，其最核心的问题，还是因为中美问题而伴随着的。

These years have seen what seems to be a lot of contradictions between China and Japan. On the international stage, each [of them] at the time of its surfacing looked as if such kind of contradiction could probably lead to a sharp conflict at any time and could even get out of control. At least myself is considering the significant problems that emerged between China and Japan during these years, their [essential] key issues, as not being caused by Chinese - American problems but accompanying them.

美国是中日矛盾的主要制造者和幕后推手，最终解决这一重大问题的着眼点，我个人认为，还是应该从出招应对美国那边开始。“解铃还得系铃人”这种处理问题的方式，那就是从矛盾着的真正原因开始。

America is the most important creator of Chinese - Japanese contradictions and promoter behind the scene, the starting point of an ultimate settling of such major problems. And I consider [we] ought [to begin with the provocative answer from] the American side. That one who started the trouble should end such style of handling problems and which is the true cause at the beginning of contradictions.

[Source: People's Network 人民网 — 强国社区 on February 7, 2014]

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The above quoted comment was published shortly before China's Global News came with the following headline and an article based on an earlier report by BBC, London:



美国务卿克里声称将保护日本不受中国攻击

U.S. secretary of state Kerry claims to ensure Japan's protection against Chinese attack.

[Source: Global News 环球网 on February 8, 2014]

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