This is fair and I think reflects my personal opinions on keeping children out of politics.
My point is more to do with seeing little kids being dressed up in CCP uniforms, handed a bayonette, and told to charge at the Japanese. I also agree we see this around the world "including movies and video games, which are also accessible to children" but I draw the line where it's being encouraged by the government to do these actions in person. Combine this with the anti-japanese rhetoric taught in primary education and it's a nasty combination*. [1]
Another thing to consider is that children are generally not given access to games/movies/whatever that have such mature themes by their parents.
I'd make this same argument if I saw US children being dressed up as US soldiers and asked to charge at Nazi "soldiers". Even though we can both (hopefully) agree that Nazi ideologies are/were disgusting and deserve to be bayonetted.
> If anything, Chinese content guidelines usually prohibit graphical display of violence, so it's much more of a milquetoast thing than e.g. South Park.
Not when the Japanese or another of China's enemies are involved. Then it's gloves off.
* Also I do want to give some slack here too, the Japanese have never acknowledged or apologised for their attrocities in WW2.
[1] https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/china-scrambling-to-unplug-ant...
