So TVB Pearl evening news provided coverage of protests in Shenyang in China's NorthEast (the capitol of Manchukuo, the Japanese-declared state carved out of China prior to WW2 beginning in Europe) as well as Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

The protest march in Hong Kong was peaceful with The Bull burning the Rising Sun flag of the WW2 Japanese military (which is still in use by the ultra-nationalists in Japan and allies of PM Koizumi). The protest in Shenzhen produced scuffles with local security forces as the local forces protected local stores. The same was true in Shenyang. Common to all three protests was the singing of the Chinese national anthem, The March of the Volunteers, which was originally a pro-Chinese song written during the war of resistance against the Japanese invasion (and in its original and current version of the lyrics has no explicit mention of the Chinese Communist Party). This should give some idea to folks abroad exactly how central these events are to the Chinese psyche.