Loading ...This Sounds Like Another Provocative Act To Us
During World War II, Japan built a chemical weapons plant in northeastern China, where Japanese scientists allegedly conducted inhuman experiments on Chinese citizens in a search for biological and chemical agents to use in warfare.
China is excavating the plant and plans to begin allowing visits to the facility next year around the 70th anniversary of “victory in the anti-Japanese war.”
The lab operated in secret between 1935 and 1945, when it was destroyed by the Japanese as Soviet forces approached.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the laboratory was responsible for the deaths of more than 10,000 people, mostly noncombatants and captured military personnel from China, the Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula and Mongolia.
This sounds to us like another little poke at Japan, just as tensions between the two countries are escalating over the ownership of the Senkaku Islands and the airspace around them.
It remains to be seen what kind of retaliation Japan will undertake, although we feel sure there will be some form of retaliation.
Let’s just hope the American government has enough sense to stay out of this one.
(Global Security Newswire, Tuesday, July 8, via www.nti.org.)
By Chembio