Do not bother about Rajeev Srinivasan's opinion. He is an ignorant person who has a fixation with China and Chinese people that borders on racism. What more can you expect from someone who drops the name of IIT and Stanford at the drop of a hat ? As for Japanese attrocities, a very conservative estimate puts the number of Chinese deaths at Japanese hands to more than 10 million. Compared to what Germany had to do (and rightly so) for its wartime attrocities, Japan really did nothing. Can you imagine German politicians in power honoring Hitler and his cohorts at their tomb without drawing protests from the world ? Well the Japanese did something similar recently and the Chinese protested and very rightfully so. Rajeev raises the Tibet issue and compares it to the number of Chinese killed in Nanking by Japanese (comparing attrocities by numbers killed - that should be enough to raise the red flag on the sanity of this person) - conveniently forgetting that Japanese attrocities were not limited to Nanking only. If you are interested in right-of-center views, read Arvind Lavakare's or Kachan Gupta's column. Unfortunately, the former's columns do not appear here anymore.
