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Kevin McSpadden's avatar

Sometimes I wonder if the Yasukuni shrine receives the most visitors from curious Chinese travellers who have heard about this place their entire lives. I would imagine many Japanese visit this place once as schoolchildren and then only later if they are politicians.

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Sridhar Prasad's avatar

I think that we in the west don’t really grasp that the ccp is keeping a lid on virulent nationalism. It seems similar to how we in the west never grasped how much Saddam and the Baathist apparatus kept a lid on Sunni-Shia conflict in Iraq.

Can you delve more into the ccp-nationalism issue, when you have a chance?

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