Chapter 146: International Response
The next day, various Japanese media reported extensively on yesterday's clash between fans and right-wingers. This violent incident caused a total of 526 injuries, of which 10 were seriously injured, which was also divided into two very clear public opinion orientations, one faction pointed the finger at Chen Feng for the conflict incident that caused heavy casualties, and some euphemistic reports used ambiguous tones to lead the disaster to Chen Feng, while others blatantly accused Chen Feng in the report, and even put forward 'long, get out of Japan' and 'Japan's most unpopular artist'...... and other slogans, trying to belittle Chen Feng's influence in Japan, and even to sow discord between the Japanese people and Long and China; while the other faction naturally supported Long and expressed solidarity with Chen Feng, and some slightly subtle and neutral ones reported on the causes and consequences of this incident on a case-by-case basis, and made objective comments, and the result was naturally from Chen Feng's standpoint, while other media, such as Fuji TV, spared no effort to build momentum for Chen Feng. Publicly accusing those right-wing groups of slander against Long, and commenting that these right-wing groups should be responsible for the current conflict, as far as the current situation stands, the two opposing public opinion orientations are still evenly matched in Japan.
Of course, in addition to the extensive coverage of this incident by the Japanese media, the world's major media also reported it in depth.
The New York Times wrote an article entitled "Long was a Guest in Japan and Suffered a Rough Protest," which first reviewed the resurgence of militarist ideology in Japan over the years, and then focused on Chen Feng's so-called "inappropriate remarks" After analyzing it, it is natural to criticize the brutal protests of these right-wing groups, and this is not counting, but also condemn the Japanese government's behavior of conniving at the development of right-wing groups in China over the years, especially the sneering at the resilience and stability maintenance ability of the Tokyo police in response to the conflict.
The New York Times is no different from ordinary newspapers, its influence is very huge, and as soon as his report came out, it directly represented a large part of international public opinion.
Compared with the New York Times, the Los Angeles Morning Post's coverage and commentary on this matter are even more spicy. Directly under the title of "The Conspiracy of Japanese Right-Wing Groups to Scandalize the Long," in addition to a fairly objective report on the incident, the report directly insulted and sharply condemned the Japanese right-wing groups in an invective tone, and finally, he also said that the Japanese Government should strictly and resolutely deal with these right-wingers and give an explanation to the international community.
In addition to the two well-known newspapers in the United States, many media in Europe and the United States, including the British "Times", "Daily Telegraph", "The Independent", "The Sun", as well as many media in France and Germany, also reported on the matter, although most of them were relatively neutral. But they are undoubtedly speaking for Long.
The newspapers of the Chinese world even carried a large report on this matter. Among them, Hong Kong's "Huateng Times", "Mirror Daily", "Ta Kung Pao" and other media all rushed to condemn the Japanese right-wing groups, expressed their urgent concern about the unfair treatment of Long in Japan, and even exaggerated that Long might be in danger of his life in Japan, and the state should send agents to protect him.
The Singapore Morning Post and Sing Tao Daily also expressed concern about the new militarist ideology reflected in Japan, and also expressed serious concern about Long's personal safety in Japan.
In addition, Taiwan's "China Times", "United Daily News", "Liberty Times", "Apple Daily" and many other media also publicly expressed their support for Long, accusing Long of being treated badly in Japan.
Although none of the traditional newspapers in China reported the incident in a timely manner, the four major web portals on the Internet all reported on their respective websites within an hour of the incident last night.
In just half an hour, the number of hits on this news exceeded 200,000, and tens of thousands of netizens left messages and comments on this matter.
The vast majority of netizens naturally angrily abused Little Japan. There are also slightly sensible netizens who remind Chen Feng to pay attention to his personal safety in Japan, and he should leave Japan as soon as possible.
And the excited netizens even called for a declaration of war on Japan, and the "Tokyo Massacre" came to the end, and this angry message was actually pushed to the top of the page by the majority of netizens, and dozens of floors have been built below.
There are also netizens who called for protesting in front of the Japanese embassy or consulate the next day, not to mention that this mention was also supported by many people. Especially netizens in Beijing and Shanghai, many people said that they went to the embassy or consulate early the next morning to protest.
In addition, some netizens extended this incident to the action of "boycotting Japanese goods", which has been widely circulated in many universities in China in the past two years, but after all, these college students are not the main consumer group of Japanese products, and the impact on domestic Japanese products is not very large, especially in the field of luxury goods such as some Japanese cars, Nissan laptops, and Japanese high-end cosmetics. At this time, in addition to the incident of Chen Feng being brutally treated by the Japanese in Japan, everyone's nationalist feelings were aroused for the first time, and they felt the same hatred for the enemy, plus Chen Feng is now a national treasure-level figure, is the image ambassador of Beijing's Olympic bid, and his identity is extraordinary, and the Japanese actually treat him like this, which is equivalent to slapping all Chinese in the face, and everyone's hearts are naturally angry.
As soon as the slogan of "boycott Japanese products, start with me" was proposed, it was also supported by many netizens, and everyone said that everyone would use practical actions to show the anti-Japanese power of the Chinese people, and give Japan a resolute counterattack.
Of course, there are also different voices on the boycott of Japanese products, and some "enlightened people" have made a tirade saying: "Japan is China's largest trading partner, and it is also the country that invests in China the most after the United States. Considering the current structure of China's economy, which is 60% dependent on foreign demand and dependent on foreign investment, boycotting Japanese goods is tantamount to self-harm. It is safe to say that as long as the government continues to do foreign trade with Japan, in other words, it is not an official boycott of Japanese goods. Then it is impossible for ordinary consumers not to buy Japanese products.
If it is an official boycott of Japanese products, then in exchange for the sanctions imposed by the United States and Japan on China, look at the fate of several sanctioned countries, such as Russia, North Korea, Iran, Iraq after the Gulf War, etc., which collapsed after the Cold War. In addition, most of the Japanese products we buy in China are manufactured and processed domestically. Then, boycotting these products will cause these manufacturers to go out of business and most people will lose their jobs. In general, it is not wise to boycott a country's products, especially if you are dealing with other people's business...... A typical example is the United States, the world's only superpower, even if it is so powerful, even if they always find fault with Chinese manufacturing, they will not boycott Chinese products. ”
At first glance, the remarks of this "enlightened man" are very reasonable. As everyone knows, this is a typical "cynicism", which is just like some "enlightened people" during the anti-Japanese period, these people often made their own "enlightened remarks", China and Japan fought back and forth, and China lost more and won less. The country is gradually declining, anyway, the two sides are fighting back and forth, and in the end it is the Chinese side that loses, so the Chinese side does not have to resist, to avoid more deaths on its side, and greater economic losses, the best way is for everyone to surrender together, endure humiliation, and look forward to the future to try the courage and rise again. These remarks now seem to us to be typical traitor and traitorous public opinion, but they were very marketable under the historical conditions at that time.
Well, now the statements of this "enlightened man" sound quite plausible at first glance. However, if it is decades or more than ten years later, we will find that these remarks are actually typical "traitor remarks", just like when we beat Japanese devils and killed one of the other side, we had to sacrifice three on our side. Many people say that domestic products are cost-effective, and Japanese products are cost-effective, so everyone naturally buys Japanese products. As everyone knows, this is a very short-sighted and selfish behavior, and to put it mildly, it is a typical traitorous behavior. Now we admit defeat to Japanese products and let them appear in all areas of our lives, strengthen the strength of Japanese-funded enterprises, contribute to Japan's GDP, and further strengthen Japan's economic strength, which is irresponsible to our future generations, and in a few decades, we will definitely be spurned and criticized by future generations.
The remarks that "boycotting Japanese goods is tantamount to harming our own interests" and that "the biggest beneficiary of the Sino-Japanese trade war is the United States" is obviously also a naïve expression of the political economy. Globalized large-scale production is the main form of production by the world's capitalist enterprises, and they have established branches of transnational corporations in other countries and moved their production bases to places where labor costs are relatively cheap and closer to the production areas and markets of raw materials, so as to save production costs. This is the way for capital to pursue higher profits and occupy more markets, because multinational companies occupy the core, upstream technology, and occupy the benefits of the brand, the biggest beneficiary of commodity production and sales is themselves, while the local downstream manufacturers get only a small piece of the cake, and often in order to receive an order from foreign companies to fight with each other, the result is that they have obtained greater benefits, in Suzhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan and other places These situations are representative. Dongguan is not a famous modern manufacturing city, in fact, it is just a base for downstream industries of parts assembly and parts processing. Although these local processing enterprises have made some money, it is those foreign companies that really make a lot of money. What makes people feel sad is that the cost price of the things processed and produced by our domestic enterprises is only two yuan, of which the profit is one yuan, but after the Japanese brand is affixed, the price of the goods becomes ten yuan, and if their own employees buy this product, they will have to pay nine yuan upside down. The key is to have their own brand, their own intellectual property rights, the Chinese people can spontaneously boycott foreign goods, especially Japanese goods, the country does not have to take restrictive measures on foreign goods in the last resort, because it is the spontaneous behavior of the market, without the will of the government to participate, the other party has no reason to fight a trade war with you.
Chinese generally have a low cultural history, and buying things is judged by the price of things, which is not only regarded by the Japanese as a living experiment, but also makes the Japanese make enough money. For example, there is an SK-2 that is often seen in advertisements, and the small one sells for 2,300 yuan. Chinese women took it as a treasure, and as soon as the wages were paid, they rushed to the store and delivered a month's hard-earned money to the Japanese. If her income is less, she asks her husband to save money and earn more money, and then forces her husband to buy it for her on birthdays and other days, as if she is afraid that the Japanese will be poor and will not be able to live her life. However, SK-2 is not allowed to be sold in many EU countries such as Germany and Switzerland, as well as in the United States, because SK-2 is found to contain highly toxic ingredients that can damage the body's own genes. After nearly 3 years of detailed research, we have found that this extremely difficult to detect genetic virus component can make the body immunity of our next generation and the next generation continue to weaken, and make our offspring's ability to resist disease very poor. At present, our biological and chemical weapons research capability is not comparable to that of Japan, because Japan's 731 and similar units have long used a large number of living people for virus testing, and these living people are ordinary Chinese people. Therefore, we hope that our compatriots must pay attention to their own precautions and never use Japanese cosmetics, food and medicines.
If you look at Sputnik, the whole of Japan is green, and you know why? Because they don't cut down a single tree. So any tree cut down in Japan has to get permission from the Japanese government, because they see forests as an important resource. But chopsticks are used throughout Japan, so what should we do? Timber from Northeast China, Heilaojiang, and Daxinganling is all exported to Japan, sent down the Ussuri River, and exported to Japan after Vladivostok has been reassembled. Therefore, the Japanese bought all the wood from our northeast, and after buying it, all of it was cut into chopsticks and used by 110 million people. When they finished eating, not a single chopstick was thrown away, they were all put away, and then ground into pulp for him to sell to the People's Daily to print newspapers. Therefore, the pulp of the People's Daily newspaper is all its own wood, but it is just a circle on the mouth of Japan.
From the point of view of protecting national industry, it is also in our vital interest to boycott Japanese products. At present, in China's domestic market, most of the products of national enterprises are concentrated in home appliances such as air conditioners, TVs, DVDs, refrigerators, and IT products such as mobile phones, laptops, computer accessories, and mp3. Many people would rather spend 4,000 yuan to buy a 3 million pixel DC of sony than spend more than 2,000 yuan to buy a DC of Lenovo with the same 3 million pixels. Although there is a gap in quality and performance, the main reason is that he admires foreign flattery, petty bourgeois style, he must call Greece, he must hold Panasonic in his hand, he must wear U2, and he must step on Adi. As everyone knows, if you never buy Lenovo, Lenovo will never have the funds to grow into a world famous brand. Since China's accession to the tariff and trade, national enterprises have gradually lost the protection of tariffs, and many foreign brands that have developed for nearly 100 years are bound to be at a disadvantage, and countries restricted by tariffs and trade agreements are unlikely to have many protective measures. Protecting national enterprises so that they can withstand the impact of foreign products, enable them to thrive, and constantly strengthen is the guarantee for the economic take-off of the Chinese nation, and it is also a prerequisite for China to become a world power. South Koreans patriotism, support for domestic products world-famous, in the early 1960s Samsung, Daewoo and other enterprises just started, for some Japanese and American enterprises market competition is at a disadvantage, thanks to the support of the Chinese people, has been steadily developed, Samsung's electrical appliances are now world-famous, there is a trend of surpassing Sony, Daewoo automobiles, shipbuilding has also become the world's top 100 enterprises.
China is Japan's largest trading country, but Japan is not China's largest trading country, and Japan's dependence on the Chinese market is much greater than China's dependence on Japan. Japanese goods compete with goods in the United States and the European Union, and because they cannot surpass their competitors in technology and have no advantage in trade, they can only gain an advantage in a few markets such as China. However, China has a lot of choice in imported goods, such as the Guangzhou subway, which selects German technology from Germany, France, and Japan's locomotive equipment. A boycott of Japanese products will not only protect national enterprises, but also kick the dead Japanese enterprises and weaken our sworn enemies.
Today, in the 21st century, the tariff and trade agreement is in front of us, and whether China's economy can seize the opportunity and meet the challenge depends partly on the efforts of the enterprises themselves, and the other part depends on the support of our people. We don't support domestic products now, boycott Japanese products, maybe a number of national enterprises will die tomorrow, maybe soon TCL, Haier, Lenovo, Tianjin FAW will say goodbye to us, and then what Rauschsony, Panasonic, Honda, Toyota will flood our market, squeeze every penny of our money, in the near future to kill our people, destroy our country, do you want such a thing to happen?
Therefore, these so-called "enlightened people" are either spies of enemy countries, or some traitors who have been poisoned by the Japanese, or they are some elite intellectual dung who claim to be "extremely smart".
As soon as this "enlightened person" remarks came out, he was abused by many people, and he obviously chose the wrong place, and at the wrong time, everyone was already angry with Japan because of Chen Feng's incident, and he also stood up and called himself a "rational and calm person" to speak for the Japanese. Isn't this a typical traitorous behavior? For a while, countless netizens slapped bricks and built several floors.
The world's largest traffic "Chen Feng's House" website published the news in a prominent position on the homepage, which immediately caused a strong reaction from many "honey", and many people said that they should organize to support Chen Feng and give color to the Japanese demonstration.
In addition to China, the long fan forums of all countries around the world also published this news for the first time, which caused a great response among the long fan groups around the world, and they all expressed their indignation at the forum for those right-wingers in Japan, and also expressed concern about Long's personal safety in Japan. Many fans said that they should show solidarity with Long and put pressure on the Japanese government. And the most effective and direct way is to go to the Japanese embassy in their own country to protest, and this mention has been supported by almost all fans.
Because of the time difference, fans from many countries have organized and rushed to the Japanese embassy to protest as soon as possible.
In London, England, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon after the incident, more than 3,000 long fans held a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy, holding a large portrait of Chen Feng, publicly condemning the slanderous behavior of Japanese right-wingers against Chen Feng and demanding that the Japanese government punish the perpetrators.
In addition, European countries include France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal...... In front of the Japanese embassies in other countries, many long fans also gathered to protest that day.
At noon on the same day, more than 10,000 Long fans gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in Washington to carry out a huge protest, and handed over a letter of protest to the Japanese ambassador to the United States, demanding that the Japanese government severely punish the perpetrators of this unfriendly act against Long.
After all, it was in the United States, and it was still the capital of the US government, and the Japanese ambassador, out of respect, personally had a friendly conversation with the protest representatives, accepted the protest letters submitted by them, and said that he would do his best to report the matter to his own government.
The outside world is well known to the world because of this fan conflict in Tokyo, but Chen Feng, who is the core figure, is a little laid-back. The next day, he got up and exercised without moving, and then ate breakfast slowly, then packed his luggage and prepared to leave for China. I didn't know that the outside world was already in trouble. As he expected, he knew that this event would be in the international news, but he didn't expect that his fans from all over the world would be so impulsive.
At this time, Wang Qibo, who had just gotten up, was in a good mood, and after he ate a rich breakfast sent by the hotel service staff, he was ready to notify everyone to go to the conference room for a meeting. At this time, he naturally didn't know that the international community or Chen Feng's fans had such an overreaction to this matter.