Be kind, there is no crime!

By: Kassy Sangster

The citizens of China are not being kind about Japan in the last few months. Not long ago they were smashing up Japanese cars in protest over the Senkaku islands. This tense relationship has not yet changed as when 2,200 Chinese citizens went to Japan to go to the local fireworks festival, they were met with hostility from other Chinese citizens. China wishes to be able to trade with Japan and keep themselves on friendly terms even with this large disagreement between them so they are discouraging the people from acting out this way. The only ones that are actually committing a crime are those who do things like smash up cars out of protest, not the owners of the cars or the tourists who were greeted kindly by the Japanese but yelled at by their own people. It seems surprising that there needs to be such reminders and that the feuds of the country could so deeply affect the people of China!