The Chinese "riots"----Think about it. China is a totalitarian state, one that is deep doo doo. The real riots are taking place over lack of drinking water and levels of pollution that are the worst in the world. You can bet that these riots are being staged so the gangster cops of the regime can kick the shit out of the real protestors around China without anybody knowing about it. Whenever an authoritarian state gets in any kind of domestic trouble they must create an outside devil. In most cases the devil is America, but with the Chinese it is more convenient to create Devil Japan. This is a thugocracy, if they wanted to stop these "riots" they would cease in a nano-second. Details on the scope of pollution are featured in this week's Economist

Water and waste pollution is the single most serious issue. Pan Yue, deputy head of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), the country's environmental watchdog ministry, calls it “the bottleneck constraining economic growth in China”. Per head, China's water resources are among the lowest in the world and concentrated in the south, so that the north and west experience regular droughts. Inadequate investments in supply and treatment infrastructure means that even where water is not scarce, it is rarely clean. Around half the population, or 600m people, have water supplies that are contaminated by animal and human waste.

In late July an environmental disaster occurred on the Huai river, one of China's seven big rivers. A 133km-long black and brown plume swept along the river killing millions of fish and devastating wildlife. According to Mr Pan, the catastrophe occurred because too much water had been taken from the river system, reducing its ability to clean itself. Others say that numerous factories dump untreated waste directly into the water.

There is a book out called The River Runs Black that the Chinese government would cause to disappear if they could that is shocking a lot of people, not just the environmental whack jobs. The Yellow River now dries up for 200 days per year before it reaches the sea. There are real riots in big parts of China, but Japan has nothing to do with them.