Hu continues life in glass house

If foreign investors are not terrified by this ultra-nationalistic nonsense, they ought to be. It was stupidity on the part of some Japanese politicians to visit a shrine with WWII soldiers at the same time that Koizumi but the reality is that Koisumi is the president and he had once again extended an apology. Japan is much more of a democracy than the crackpots running China and in a democracy you can't ram through a single-minded policy as you can in China. Imagine that Hu, you can't just go out and arrest dissenters and throw them in prison for 10 years. What a crazy concept for a bunch of tyrants.

Japan is an easy whipping boy in this because if there's one thing that the Japanese detest, it's a public conflict. They have invested billions in to China no doubt with massive bribes to communist officials (as per usual there) and now they are being singled out. Personally I have stumbled across countless Japanese sponsored programs in the developing world in Southeast Asia and in Africa. Their wartime crimes were disgraceful but this is not the Japan of WWII. If China had a clear record in the past 50 years they might have some room to talk but c'mon, this is a joke. What is really scary is that the President of the country is mixing it up and taking an active role in this theater.

I've always been one of the rare dissenters who has not bought in to the Chinese economic miracle because the communist government there has an extensive history of cooking the books, lying and massive corruption. The party is not going to last with this crew of thugs and investors ought to be waking up in the middle of the night wondering if they are going to be the next Japan.