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Oh indeed. If there's someone who is terrified of Chinese nationalism, it's the Chinese government/communist party. They're not shy to use it when they can channel it into the international arena, but they're obviously scared of it getting out of control at home, for obvious reasons.

This particular show was mostly for an international audience, in an effort to paint the Japanese as the bad guys and help drum up support for their own claim to the islands. Japan have also been eager to hush this up, of course, because they don't want either their own nationalists to start screaming over the islands, or to risk business with China that is vitally important to the country. It's a tricky game for them - they can't afford to lose either the claim to the islands, or that business with China, so they keep dancing around that line in an effort to keep both as much as possible.