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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (62137)	4/17/2005 4:04:19 AM
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Violence flares as the Chinese rage at Japan With tens of thousands demonstrating on the streets in cities across China, Jonathan Watts in Shanghai examines the roots of an old enmity and a new conflict Sunday April 17, 2005 The Observer observer.guardian.co.uk China has refused Japanese requests for a bilateral summit since 1999. Beijing is particularly enraged by Koizumi's insistence on making an annual visit to the Yasukuni war shrine, which honours - among millions of others - terrible war criminals. According to the Japanese media, the two leaders are not even in telephone contact. What meetings do take place are snatched - and often bad-natured - talks on the sidelines of multilateral summits, the last of which was more than five months ago. A shift in ideology in China is making matters worse. Communist cadres openly acknowledge that nationalism is replacing Marxism as the raison d'être of the ruling party. 'Nobody understands Marxism. It is ridiculous,' says Li Rui, a former secretary of Mao Zedong. 'The ideals of the past don't exist any more. So it is right to turn to nationalism. It is the means by which the party can maintain its system and ideology.'