This essay examines efforts to frame the comfort women issue as a Holocaust-level war crime and analyzes the influence of overseas Chinese networks in promoting this narrative.
It explores the strategic coordination between the Chinese Communist Party and diaspora communities in the global historical discourse.

This was a movement intended to imprint the idea that “sex slavery” constituted a war crime comparable to the Jewish Holocaust.
January 9, 2018.
To be continued.
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Japanese military aggression, the Nanjing Massacre of 300,000, and the forced mobilization of hundreds of thousands of comfort women….
This was a movement intended to create the impression that “sex slavery” was a war crime on par with the Jewish Holocaust.
The Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall served as its flagship facility, and for many years a key figure in anti-Japan activities based on the U.S. West Coast—and who rose to the top ranks of the Chinese community in America—was Ms. Fan.
When President Xi Jinping visited the United States in September of that year, a commemorative photograph was taken in Seattle with representatives of overseas Chinese communities.
Ms. Fan stood at the center of the second row, diagonally behind President Xi and Peng Liyuan in the center of the front row.
Since the front row consisted of accompanying senior Chinese Communist Party officials, the center of the second row can effectively be regarded as the top position.
At the banquet on that occasion as well, Ms. Fan sat at one table, flanked on both sides by Li Zhanshu, ranked third in the second Xi administration (from October 2017), and Wang Huning, ranked fifth.
From this alone, one can understand the level of Ms. Fan’s standing within the Chinese community in the United States.
To be continued.