If Chinese People Don't Deeply Self-Reflect, It's Useless Even If the Japanese Plead Guilty!!!

The whole nation is clamoring for Japan to apologize, for Japan to admit guilt. But even if Japan admits guilt, so what? If Chinese people don't deeply self-reflect, it's completely useless even if the Japanese plead guilty a thousand times.

Why was China invaded? Why was China so weak that a tiny island nation could rampage across the mainland for over a decade? These are the questions that should be keeping us up at night, not whether some Japanese politician bows at Yasukuni or not.

A nation that only knows how to demand apologies from others but never examines itself is a nation doomed to repeat its tragedies. Germany has apologized for World War II many times -- has that made the victims less dead? The real question is how to become strong enough that no one dares invade again.

Focusing on Japanese apologies is a displacement activity. It lets us feel righteous without doing anything useful. The truly patriotic thing is to look inward: at our education system, our military preparedness, our technological development, our national unity. Fix these, and Japan's apology becomes irrelevant. Fail to fix these, and Japan's apology is merely a band-aid on a hemorrhage.