Hu, What, Wen, Where, and Why

China's leaders lecture Japan, but neglect their own history.

BY John J. Tkacik Jr.

May 9, 2005, Vol. 10, No. 32

MILLIONS OF CHINESE FAMILIES SUFFERED during the invasion and occupation of the mainland by Imperial Japanese armies in the Second World War. But President Hu Jintao's and Premier Wen Jiabao's family tragedies came at the hands of fellow Chinese, not Japanese--and occurred rather more recently.

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