# Chinese Elder Condemns Japanese Atrocities and Recalls Past Friendship - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117267946213159067 - Source account: [@j09537594](https://x.com/j09537594) - Source language: Chinese (China) - Target language: English - Duration: 4:48 - Published: 2026-11-03 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/zh-cn/%E8%80%81%E5%A4%AA%E7%88%B7%E7%97%9B%E6%96%A5%E6%97%A5%E5%86%9B%E6%9A%B4%E8%A1%8C-%E8%BF%BD%E5%BF%86%E4%B8%AD%E6%97%A5%E6%98%94%E6%97%A5%E5%8F%8B%E8%B0%8A.md ## Transcript [0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=1) It’s Japan, that’s what. — You Japanese devils, aren’t you? [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=6) Officer, you tell me, with conduct like this, can you still claim to be civilized? [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=15) If I call you a beast in human clothing, I’d be insulting the beasts’ nature. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=23) You—you beastly— — beast! You! You cowardly beasts, you Japanese devils. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=32) You’ve killed thousands without batting an eye, yet you can’t even bear a few words from an old man— — words? [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=46) What you’ve done today shows you no longer regard the people of China as human. [0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=54) You can speak my language, so I thought you were a learned, reasonable man. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=61) You should know that China once had the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties. [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=67) During the Tang dynasty, how did the people of China treat you? [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=73) When did we ever fail in courtesy? Your clothes, tea, and books—which of them doesn’t bear the mark of Chinese customs? [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=84) We were friendly neighboring nations. [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=90) But today, you relying on Western laws and weapons, have treated a benevolent, friendly nation like cattle to be slaughtered. [1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=101) What you’ve done has not only destroyed a thousand years of friendship, but also broken the hearts of the Chinese people. [1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=113) There are hundreds of millions of Chinese people. [1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=117) Can you kill them all? [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=121) Japan is but a tiny island nation, yet you’ve forged with your neighbors such deep hatred. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=133) How will your descendants make friends with the rest of the world? [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=142) Who will ever believe— —you again? [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=150) Young man, remember your great-grandfather’s words. [2:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=155) Today, my entire clan faces the calamity of extermination. [2:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=162) We’ll simply die together as a family. But your actions will leave your descendants with a crime that can never be washed away— —for all eternity. [2:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=177) One day, China will prosper. When that day comes, our Chinese nature of repaying hatred with virtue may mean we won’t seek revenge on Japan. [3:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=190) But remember this: if your descendants still don’t change these deeds, worse than those of beasts, Heaven will destroy you— —you bunch of animals! [3:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=238) —Bah! Old man! Old man! Old man! Old man! [4:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EOyUSi2VwSrB/en/chinese-elder-condemns-japanese-atrocities-and-recalls-past-friendship?t=246) Old man! Ah!