Sunday, April 17, 2005

The Best Way to Resolve Conflicts between China and Japan

For those of you who don't read the news, let me summarize what has been happening:

There has been an increase in anti-Japanese sentiment in China. Protests have been seen in different cities, where protesters were seen trashing Japanese cars/restaurants, throwing stones at the Japanese Consulate, and flipping random people off.

China demands Japan to apologize for raping over 80,000 innocent women and killing over 300,000 people in China during the Nanjing Massacre. Apparently they are also pissed that the Japanese has been publishing high school text books that distort the Japanese war-time atrocities.
In my humble opinion, Japan should just apologize as soon as possible before the protests spread to the United States because:
  • I drive a Mazda and I cannot afford a new car if it gets trashed by protesters.
  • I go to Miyakes at least twice a week and I do not want the california roll makers there to be in any kind of danger.
  • I intend to go to the Cherry Blossom festival in Japan town next week in San Francisco and I do not want to be killed just because I'm Chinese.
  • There are many Chinese Americans here who own Japanese restaurants, and they would be totally confused on what they should do.
This kind of protests have been going back and forth for years. It is only a matter of time until the United States get involved, and it might very well turn into World War 3. I demand some type of resolution immediately!

Fortunately, with the major advances in technology, the friction between these two nations can probably be solved without real life bloodshed. China and Japan shall appoint Hu Jintao, the president of the People's Republic of China and Junichiro Koizumi, the Prime Minster of Japan, to settle their differences on Street Fighter II. Hu Jintao must pick Chun Li whereas Junichiro Koizumi must pick Ryu Hoshi. They will play in a best out of 3 rounds format. Whoever wins 2 out of 3 rounds will be considered the victor.

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If you guys can think of a better method to settle this, please let me know.

5 comments:

Andrew said...

Obviously an unfair venue, as SFII is a Japanese game and Ryu is definitely the superior fighter. Koizumi will pwn Jintao!!! Didn't you know that while the U.S. has the SAT II's, the Japanese have the SF II's as a prerequisite for their college apps?

Rico said...
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Rico said...

What's this world coming too. Chinese running Japanese restaurants. At the back of the Japanese restaurant you'd find a Chinese fast food restaurant? Next thing you'll see is me opening up a chain of Chinese restaurants. I'll call it "Ricardo's Authentic Chinese Cuisine" served with Coronas. Chief's specialty ... General's Tsao's chicken marinated in Jose Cuervo private reserve :-)

Andrew said...

Chief is spelled "Chef" ... and Tsao is spelled "Tso"... and i'll bet that you'll be serving only the dim sum items at your 'hole in the wall' restaurant -- pork buns, potstickers, and egg rolls. Might as well call it "RiCho's dim sum". Eso estaria chevere mi amigo...

Rico said...

Hahah....loooong night....just trying to stay awake