In Soccer Loss, China’s Rising Ire at Japan

An international soccer match is never a place for the faint of heart. But the insults aimed at the Japanese team during the Asian Cup soccer tournament, held in China this year, are being called the latest example of a strain of rising anti-Japanese nationalism among many younger Chinese that seems increasingly volatile.

It’s interesting that the young, who once protested so strongly their own government, are now so gripped in nationalistic ferver.
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