Among the many reactions to the death of Shinzo Abe, that of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, which says it is “shocked” by the attack of which the Japanese Prime Minister was shot and killed on Friday July 8, while on the networks, resentment against Japan is resurging.
With our correspondent in Beijing, Stephane Lagarde
The assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, it is first the Chinese manufacturers of bulletproof vests who rub their hands. Shares of the top three military armor providers jumped 2-6% on Friday, reports the Quarz sitewhile more nationalists hailed the disappearance, calling the shooter a “hero” and recalling Abe Shinzo’s visits to Yasukuni when he was in office, the shrine that commemorates Japan’s World War II leaders.
Man of consensus with China
Hashtags about the Nara attack this morning have more than a billion views in China. And for bitter Chinese netizens, the former prime minister is also the one who defended, the Senkaku Islandsalso called Diaoyu by Beijing.
But Shinzo Abe is also, for part of the Chinese elite, the man of rapprochement, even of agreement with China. Some recall that the former chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party will be the first Japanese prime minister to return to Beijing after the 2011 estrangement around the Rocks of Discord in the East China Sea. This, before relations between Beijing and Tokyo deteriorated again with his successors.
We must put aside the differences of the past, writes on Twitter the former editor of the GlobalTimes.
I feel sympathy for Abe. I publicly expressed my sympathy in a post today on Chinese social media Weibo. The post garnered 86,000 likes in just over an hour and is one of the hottest posts about Abe’s incident on the Chinese social media. pic.twitter.com/BB7kPGlsau
— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) July 8, 2022
China is ” shocked by this attack, said spokesman for Chinese diplomacy Zhao Linjian. ” During his tenure, former Prime Minister Abe contributed to the improvement and development of China-Japan relations, says spokesperson for Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. We express our condolences on his passing and express our sympathy and concern to his family. »
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