TORONTO – China is at it again, bashing Japan, its favorite whipping boy. But as China regularly whips itself up into frenzy over Japan, it is perhaps easy to forget that China’s modern anti-Japanese sentiment is only a recent phenomenon.
China’s bashing this time round is because of new laws that will allow the Self Defense Forces (SDF) to engage in collective self-defense.
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