What’s missing from this article is that Nobu Iwatani previously worked for defense and foreign ministries in Japan. He is no “civilian”.
The fact he previously worked on a project for the military is mentioned in the article.
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#32What’s missing from this article is that Nobu Iwatani previously worked for defense and foreign ministries in Japan. He is no “civilian”.
You don't get to redefine the word "civilian" to suit your politics. Merely working for a defense ministry doesn't make someone a member of the armed forces.
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#33What’s missing from this article is that Nobu Iwatani previously worked for defense and foreign ministries in Japan. He is no “civilian”.
This is the same argument used by some to claim that Huawei is the extended arm of Chinese surveillance agencies (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20366883 ) and I don't think it's very convincing. Work for the government once, lose civilian status forever?
The revolving door between the two, at the very least, warrant closer scrutiny, even if they don't imply breathless accusation of corruption.
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#35Anyone know what parts specifically of the KMT’s story are “left out” in the version of history promulgated by the PRC, such that a full accounting would be risky? My first guess: the strong affiliation between Sun Yat-sen and the party, since the CCP still seems to respect Sun and his Three Principles and use (their interpretations of) them to justify CCP tentpoles.
As someone who was educated in China for 11 years, I would argue the part of KMT that CCP left out in my history book was mostly covering up the corruption and incompetence of KMT.
For example, little did I know that KMT deliberately destroyed a dam to "stop" Japanese army that killed almost 1 million instantly and later caused a famine in Henan that caused between 288,006 and 1,484,983 deaths right at my hometown[0][1].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9...
Edit: changed to English wikipedia pages from Chinese
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#36This is disgusting. I felt sick just reading the headline. What an absolutely disgusting country.
You got a bit of a bee in your bonnet about China judging from your comment history.
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#37Anyone know what parts specifically of the KMT’s story are “left out” in the version of history promulgated by the PRC, such that a full accounting would be risky? My first guess: the strong affiliation between Sun Yat-sen and the party, since the CCP still seems to respect Sun and his Three Principles and use (their interpretations of) them to justify CCP tentpoles.
From what I hear, the CCP is displayed as bearing the brunt of the Japanese assault in Chinese textbooks, with the KMT only playing a minor role. I guess they want to avoid the KMT looking like war heroes whose weakness after the war was abused by the CCP to seize power. EDIT: For anyone interested in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the civil war that followed it, HistoryLapse (by HN user domnuprofesor) ran an inter…
The question of which fource contributed the most in a war is actually not that easy.
For example, the answer of who defeated Nazi changed significantly in the last 70 years in Europe [0].
[0]: https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year...
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#38Anyone know what parts specifically of the KMT’s story are “left out” in the version of history promulgated by the PRC, such that a full accounting would be risky? My first guess: the strong affiliation between Sun Yat-sen and the party, since the CCP still seems to respect Sun and his Three Principles and use (their interpretations of) them to justify CCP tentpoles.
As someone who was educated in China for 11 years, I would argue the part of KMT that CCP left out in my history book was mostly covering up the corruption and incompetence of KMT. For example, little did I know that KMT deliberately destroyed a dam to "stop" Japanese army that killed almost 1 million instantly and later caused a famine in Henan that caused between 288,006 and 1,484,983 deaths right at my hometown[0]…
Why would they want to leave that out
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#39Anyone know what parts specifically of the KMT’s story are “left out” in the version of history promulgated by the PRC, such that a full accounting would be risky? My first guess: the strong affiliation between Sun Yat-sen and the party, since the CCP still seems to respect Sun and his Three Principles and use (their interpretations of) them to justify CCP tentpoles.
As someone who was educated in China for 11 years, I would argue the part of KMT that CCP left out in my history book was mostly covering up the corruption and incompetence of KMT. For example, little did I know that KMT deliberately destroyed a dam to "stop" Japanese army that killed almost 1 million instantly and later caused a famine in Henan that caused between 288,006 and 1,484,983 deaths right at my hometown[0]…
English articles:
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9...
I was going to link your [0] and my [0] as translations on Wikipedia, but then I noticed my [0] already has a different Chinese article assigned as its translation.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who was educated in China for 11 years, I would argue the part of KMT that CCP left out in my history book was mostly covering up the corruption and incompetence of KMT. For example, little did I know that KMT deliberately destroyed a dam to "stop" Japanese army that killed almost 1 million instantly and later caused a famine in Henan that caused between 288,006 and 1,484,983 deaths right at my hometown[0]…
English articles: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9... I was going to link your [0] and my [0] as translations on Wikipedia, but then I noticed my [0] already has a different Chinese article assigned as its translation.
thanks for the links, updated.