Just as tempers had begun to cool off after anti-Japanese riots left Hondas and Toyotas strewn, vandalized, across China’s streets two weeks ago, tensions on the microblogging site Weibo began to rise again over news that in Japan, the newly released iPhone 5 listed a set of contested islands — known as Diaoyu in China, Senkaku in Japan, and claimed by both countries — as part of the Okinawa Prefecture, part of Japan. To complicate matters, the Senkaku-labeled islands appear beside a duplicated set of the same islands, labeled the Chinese way. Within the first few hours after news broke, over 760,000 outraged posts appeared on Weibo, nearly all calling for boycotts of the latest iPhone.
China’s and Japan’s Diaoyu/Senkaku-Islands Dispute: The iPhone 5 Factor, The Atlantic
slavin: ”Dear god, please give the iPhone 5 the same totem-like power in nationalist disputes that Pussy Riot and Chick-Fil-A have enjoyed these last few months.”
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