China holds low-key Nanking Massacre memorial despite Japan tensions
China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanking Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, despite a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan.Beijing has raged against Japan since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said last month that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Chinese-claimed Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo.China and Japan have long sparred over their painful history. China consistently reminds its people of the 1937 massacre, in which it says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in what was then its capital.
