You would think they could at least maintain the charade of pretending to be balanced and having some shred of journalistic distance, but no – straight out cultural-revolution-style incitement seems to be the plan today. Yes, everyone knows it’s a state-run newspaper, but if they can’t even be bothered to make their case then things look a fraction more worrying than they did yesterday.

Please don’t have a war, China and Japan. It’s just a bunch of rocks in the sea.