Wednesday  4 February 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, in re: China's 2015 military parade .  Xi Jinping has reorganized National Day, will have that parade instead on Sept 3 to memorialize "the War of Japanese Aggression," i.e., WWII.  This is Against Mao's policy, which was never to speak of WWII at all because he'd refused to let the Communists fight in that war. In late August 19__, Mao told his generals not to engage Japanese forces directly. [Reminiscent of Chiang, who just stole most of the money and materiel.]  A secret UD S mission named Spaniel went the occupied areas, found not the CCP fighting the Land of the Rising Sun but a plain peace.  Now Xi is trying to get the Chinese populace worked up, so he's uncorking national sentiment against Japan in order to have a military confrontation with Japan for his own self-aggrandizement.  . . .  The US can avoid all this China-Japan mess except, if China so much as fires a shotgun, US-Japan treaties kick in.   . . .  Aggression is like a fire in your house: put it out immediately.  Xi is grasping at power with unprecedented speed. Mene mene.