Chinese Communist Youth Newspaper Runs Tasteless Ad Attacking Japan

Above, the offensive ad.

Nothing like pissing off a neighbor. That's what a Chinese Communist Party newspaper tailored to Chinese communist youth has done.

According to The Japan News (Yomiuri Shimbun):

BEIJING—The latest issue of Chongqing Youth News, a Chinese weekly paper in Chongqing, ran a full-page ad headlined “Japan wants a new war” in Chinese and English, publishing a map of the Japanese archipelago with mushroom clouds generated from nuclear bombs positioned over areas indicating Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

The paper is published by the Chongqing city committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League, a youth organization of the Chinese Communist Party. The map only showed Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The inflammatory ad aroused the ire of Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who called the ad "totally unacceptable."

The ad is rather tasteless and tacky, to put it mildly.

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