"Looking backward over a half-century of American diplomacy in the Far East, we see curious phenomena which which undoubtedly have their origin in our own emotional complexes. We see a distinct difference between our policy toward this area and our policy toward Europe...Unquestionably, our relation to the peoples of the Far East has been colored a certain sentimentality toward the Chinese－ a sentimentality as disrespectful to them and as unhelpful to the long-term interests of our relations...(George Kennan, American Diplomacy, the University of Chicago Press, first printed in 1951, reprinted in 1981, pp. 52-53.)" This sentimentality was American infatuation with China, seeing in their own fantasy what had never existed and does not exist in China. The sentimentality or infatuation was largely bred and cultivated American missionaries in China. "The missionaries, on the other hand, ever anxious to ingratiate themselves with the Chinese, made fools of themselves Ralph Townsend, Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China, the Barnard Review, 1933, reprinted in 1997, p. 288.)"
Kennan said, "One of our best informed diplomats, Mr. John V. A, MacMurray, retired since since several years, wrote in 1935 an extremely thoughtful and prophetic memorandum, in which, pointing to the likelihood of a war with Japan if we continued in the course we are following, he observed that even the most drastic achievement of our objectives in such a war only play into the hands of Russia and raise a host of new problems...If we were to 'save' China from Japan...[it] is no reproach to the Chinese to acknowledge that we should have established no claim upon their gratitude...They would thank us for nothing, and give us no credit for unselfish intentions, but set themselves to formulating resistance to us in the exercise of responsibilities we would have assumed (Kennan, ibid. pp. 51-2.)" In passing Hirohito and his wife visited the US. He said at the dinner held in the White House that he had long waited for the occasion, if it presented itself, to express his deep gratitude for the profuse assistance offered by America to devastated Japan.
To be continued.

Hey MOpy

Look what them thar fiendish Chinese-Chinese are up to now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPJkL4jqSY&feature=emb_logo

plantagenet,

Are you sure they're Chinese?

They look more like a bunch of typical Aussie larrikins to me.

All they need now is to start singing the amended Aussie anthem in Mandarin to make it complete.

I assume multicultural versions of the Australian anthem will be made available ....... Yes? No?

This ONE melded culture song "I Am Australian" http://youtu.be/KrLTe1_9zso should replace the Girt Song.

"Multicultural" baiting is for bigots like LEGO.

You don't want to be classed with such anti-Asian bigots - do you Mr Opinion?

plantagenet,

I hate that song. It's just so not me.

I'm all for the Asianization of Australia. What I am against is that it is weighted towards a Chinese component instead of being dispersed evenly among the disparate ethnic groups that an Asianized Australia is supposed to mirror.

For example, have a look at Sydney which is now a bicultural city as depicted by signage particularly Sydney Airport where signs are English (top) & Chinese (bottom). Why don't we also have French, German, Italian translations on the same signage? Because Australia is a Asianized society weighted towards Chinese.

I just can't wait until I get my Mandarin version of the amended national anthem in the mail.

Continued from the previous comment.

I must get to the finish as soon as possible not to jar 'the Great Australian Debate.' But my coming comments will not be necessarily superfluous, I hope, because they will also tell something about China's mendacity and singularity.

About Hirohito. He did not like ultra-nationalism of the 1930s. He did not like a Japanese drift toward Nazi Germany. He was personally angry with an expansionist policy of the second Sino-Japanese war. He was very much worried about the hazardous policy toward the United States.

But the truth was that he was politically impotent like his father, grand-father, great-grand father, on and on to the first legendary emperor of 663 B.C. He was made impotent by the stipulations of the Meiji Japanese Constitution. The stipulations were simply the embodiment of the traditional political culture of long history surrounding the throne. "All the way up to the end of World War II the Japanese leadership was able to combine an extreme reverence for the emperor with a complete willingness to force decisions on him regardless of his own wishes...Lacking Christianity or any other suitable religion, Ito (Hirobumi Ito, who was one of the main architects of the Constitution) felt that Japan would have to find its spiritual unity through reverence for the throne. The constitution thus called the emperor 'sacred and inviolable' and emphasized the continuity of the imperial line, 'unbroken for ages eternal.' Sovereignty and all powers of government were assigned to the emperor, but under conditions that assured that others would make
the actual decisions...This form of monarchy appears to be a congenial pattern for countries like Japan and northern Europe, which are monarchies that have achieved their democratic systems largely through evolutionary rather than revolutionary means (E. O. Reischauer, The Japanese, Charles E. Tuttle, 1978. pp.245, 248.)"

I (Yoshimichi Moriyama) sent five comments on Project Syndicate/Nouriel Robini/Global Ground Zero in Asia/April 30, 2014. They are about Hirohito.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/nouriel-robini-says-that-if-the-global-order-blows-up-the-detonation-will-occur-in-asia.