Be glad Germany isn’t reacting to any of this. (At least, not yet.)
“A commentary on a Chinese government-owned news agency vilified President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III for comparing China’s territorial claims and that of Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler,” Louis Bacani on Philstar.com.
The report cited a commentary by writer Ming Jinwei, which described Aquino’s remarks as “inflammatory” and a “senseless attack” against China.
The commentary pointed out: “But (Aquino’s) latest reported attack against China, in which he senselessly compared his northern neighbor to the Nazi Germany, exposed his true color as an amateurish politician who was ignorant both of history and reality.”
Aquino had drawn an analogy between China’s maritime claims and Nazi Germany’s acquisition of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in an interview with The New York Times.
Aquino had said that like Czechoslovakia, the Philippines now needs more support from other nations to resist China’s territorial demands. He had stated, “At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it — remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.”
As such, the Xinhua commentary lamented that Aquino’s statements “may very much have squandered” the “improved” relations between China and the Philippines after the former extended help in the areas devastated by Typhoon Yolanda.
Malacañang, for its part, said Aquino’s his recent remarks did not mean to offend China.
Really? You compare someone to Hitler and expect them not to get offended?
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