Chinese protests were manipulated

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From all appearances the wave of anti-Japanese protests in China have reached an end. Following a meeting of the Chinese Politburo, the Xinhua News Agency reported that the focus should be on construction and development.

An article in the People's Daily talked of the importance of constructing a harmonious society for the sake of stability, saying that the flames of anti-Japanese anger needed to be extinguished. The article combined the ideas of taking economic construction as the center, as advocated by Deng Xiaoping (???), former president Jiang Zemin's (???) reform while developing stable diplomatic ties and President Hu Jintao's (???) construction of a socialist harmonious society.

The April 17 meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing (???) and his Japanese counterpart Machimura Nobutaka was a tense affair, ending with the men failing to shake hands. Regardless, in the interests of "extinguishing the flames of anger" Xinhua reported Machimura as saying that Japanese aggression had caused much harm to the Chinese people in recent history, for which Japan felt a deep remorse, and again offered his apologies.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/04/26/2003252068

Anyone who's been to China knows these were Communist Party events.