{"id":142455,"date":"2025-12-16T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142455"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:00:19","slug":"tower-of-peace-or-sin-why-china-demands-that-a-japanese-wartime-monument-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142455","title":{"rendered":"Tower of peace or sin? Why China demands that a Japanese wartime monument be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMainland Chinese media are calling for the demolition of a wartime monument in Japan, resurfacing a long-standing point of bilateral tension, as Beijing and Tokyo are locked in a diplomatic row over Taiwan.<br \/>\nYuyuantantian, a social media account run by mainland state broadcaster CCTV, said on Saturday that Japan seized more than 370 stones from the countries it invaded during the second world war \u2013 most from China \u2013 and used them to build Hakko Ichiu Tower, which the account described as \u201ca tower&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3336660\/tower-peace-or-sin-why-china-demands-japanese-wartime-monument-be-demolished?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMainland Chinese media are calling for the demolition of a wartime monument in Japan, resurfacing a long-standing point of bilateral tension, as Beijing and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}