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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Frederik Kelter

Money, power and the peril of courting Chinese nationalism

Protesters in China hold defaced Japanese flags during an anti-Japan demonstration in Lanzhou, Gansu province, in October 2010 [Kyodo/Reuters]

In January, a Chinese ultranationalist vlogger – video blogger – came across red circular stickers on the glass doors of a shopping mall in Nanjing featuring the words: “Happy 2024.”

The vlogger claimed that what appeared to be innocent New Year decorations were, in fact, nationalistic Japanese motifs since the red circles resembled the rising red sun in Japan’s national flag.

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