西方媒体虽然在抨击中国和煽动反华情绪上居主导地位，但一些亚洲媒体也不遑多让。其中最突出的是来自印度和日本的媒体。
由于中印长期存在边界争端，印度媒体对中国具有偏颇和偏见的报道是可以预料的。然而，当下日本媒体对中国的负面和敌对报道却格外引人注目。
基于自20世纪初以来日本对中国的侵略战争，日本的反华立场并不令人意外。
致力于研究集体暴力和战争带来的灭绝行为之美国政治学家兼教授鲁道夫·鲁梅尔（Rudolph Rummel）就估计：“日本军人政权（二次大战）杀害了近300万至1000万人，其中大部分，近600万是中国人，其他为印尼人、韩国人、菲律宾人和印度支那人，这也包括西方战俘在内。”。
他不以“种族灭绝”（genocide）称之，而表明：“如此的大规模屠杀是政治道德破产和军事策略、军事权宜和习俗，以及国家文化使然的结果”。
如今，日本新闻机构《日经亚洲》在本区域就起著领导作用，煽动对中国的抨击、仇恨和敌意。这表面上是针对习主席和中国共产党的。实际上，读者需要看出其背后的意图，是针对整个中国和中国人。
《日经亚洲》由日本大财团日本经济新闻社所拥有，该集团自豪地宣称，为读者提供日本经济、产业和市场的优质报道。其拥有伦敦的《金融时报》，在全球有37个派驻点和1500名记者，声称自己“完美地为全球读者提供亚洲新闻和分析”。
集团下的《日本经济新闻》每天以纸质和数码形式出版两次。每天早报发行量约270万份，晚报则有约140万份。在网上，电子版本有43万个付费订户，同时也提供部分文章的英文版。该集团还拥有另外三家主要报纸：报道股市的《日经证券周刊》，报道商业和提供商务的《日经市场》，以及报道产业的《日经产业新闻》，以及在线新闻库《日经电讯》，拥有150万订户和十几个其他网站。
该集团在日本拥有54个分社，提供文字和视频报道。其本身也有电视频道（主要关注股市），出版杂志、书籍，并拥有庞大的商业数据库，以及主办大型会议，并提供有关亚洲其他地区，特别是中国的专业报道。
可是日本经济新闻社为日本和全球读者提供了怎样的中国新闻？
反中报道与分析
浏览《日经亚洲》网站首页的“中国特写”栏目标题，可清楚地看到其坚定的反习近平与中国的报道和分析。如：
对于法国战狼使者言，任务已完成；
是习近平而非特朗普启动脱钩之路；
为何习近平不会见台湾前领导人；
幕僚长蔡奇，将成习近平权力的象征；
重量级习近平与轻量级内阁；
经济部长被边缘化，中共接管政策制定；
李克强卸任前警告“人在做天在看”；
这是一种讽刺，习近平削弱国务院 加强党力量；
习近平将中国内部安全机构置于其控制下；
美国能否将中国视为支持恐怖主义的国家？
中国未来军事单位很可能是气球事件背后主要力量；
解放军战略支援部队统一空间、网络和电子战；
2020年日本发现的物体是否是中国间谍气球？
保全习近平面子 “清零”政策突退场；
马云下台意味中国黄金时代结束；
中国老人为防疫失误付出高代价；
女性抗议者让中国摆脱清零政策束缚；
自毁“白皮书”——习近平中国梦成了噩梦；
根据该网站，在2022年最受欢迎的评论是“习近平不再被尊称为‘人民领袖’”。
《日经亚洲》最新的反华舆论，则源自前特朗普顾问马修·波廷格。除了通过日本记者撰写的报道外，该媒体也用雄厚的资金向外国战争鹰派寻求支援，以加强其反华的宣传。
在5月4日一篇名为〈中国被西方喂养成“大白鲨”〉的访谈文章中，波廷格被提出了一些旨在证实中国在习近平领导下对美国、日本和其他“自由国家”构成威胁的引导性问题。他在反华方面展现了积极一面。
文章没有提供波廷格作为美国强硬反华意识形态者的背景，而只是表明他目前的职位，即“斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的杰出高级研究员”，以使他的观点拥有学术独立和合理光环。
一个欣赏波廷格的作者是这样描述波廷格在中国问题上的立场：
关于美国和中国在贸易或人工智能等各个领域的竞争，波廷格认为，美国必须将美国军事力量作为威慑手段，并把贸易冲突作为经济杆杠，而把美中的合作置之后面。
尽管波廷格并非像美国前国家安全顾问博尔顿那样咄咄逼人，其更倾向于在幕后操盘，但他是冷战时期竞争形态的核心构建者，这种竞争形态也贯穿了当代美中关系。美国和世界绝对可以预见当前美国政策是不会改变的。
《日经亚洲》对中国的报道，以及在散播反华人士包括美国战争贩子舆论方面，不仅漠视和忘了日本对中国的历史罪行，而且似乎无法在对中国的报道中遵循真实、准确、客观、公正、公开问责等原则。
相反，该媒体一心想让中国把日本视为要打倒的敌人。目前，中国对试图破坏中日两国和平关系发展的日本媒体采取了姑息政策。但对于这样一个影响日本公众舆论和政策制定的敌对巨型媒体，中国还能容忍多久？
林德宜《日经亚洲和金融时报反华举动》原文：Nikkei Asia and Financial Times : Sinophobia and China Bashing
Although Western media has been prominent in China bashing and promoting Sinophobia, some of Asia’s media is not far behind
The most prominent is media from India and Japan.
Slanted and prejudiced coverage of China by Indian media is to be expected because of their long standing border dispute. However the negative and adversarial news reporting by Japan’s media stands out today.
The Japanese anti-China position is not surprising considering Japan’s wars of aggression against China since the beginning of the 20th century.
Rudolph Rummel, American political scientist and professor whose career has been devoted on detailing collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination has estimated that “ the Japanese military regime murdered near 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most probably almost 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war”..
Distinguishing it from “genocide”, according to him: “This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture"
Nikkei Asia’s Anti-China News Coverage
Today, the Japanese news agency, Nikkei Asia, is playing a leading role in the region stirring up criticism, hatred and enmity towards China. This is ostensibly directed at President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, reading between the lines, it is aimed at China and the Chinese as a whole.
The giant Nikkei Inc.,to which it belongs, boasts that it is providing unparalleled coverage of Japan's economy, industries and markets. With its ownership of The Financial Times (FT) in London and 37 bases globally and 1500 journalists, Nikkei claims that it is “ideally positioned to provide Asian news and analysis to a global audience.
The Nikkei daily is published twice a day, both in paper and digital form. Some 2.7 million copies of the morning edition are published every day … and 1.4 million copies of lighter newspaper come out each afternoon. The online version has 430,000 paying subscribers, and offers English versions of some articles. …The group owns three other major newspapers: Nikkei Veritas (which reports on stock markets), Nikkei Marketing (on business and services) and Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun (on industries), as well as the online news source Nikkei Telecom, with 1.5 million subscribers, and a dozen other websites. The network … has 54 bureau in Japan, which provide text and video reporting. It runs its own TV channel (Nikkei CNBC, which largely follows stocks), publishes magazines, books, and has a huge bank of business data, as well as organising conferences and providing specialist reporting on the rest of Asia, notably in Chinese.
So what is the news on China that Nikkei is providing to the Japanese and global audience?
The following titles downloaded from the website front page “China Up Close” gives a clear picture of the paper’s unrelenting anti-Xi and anti-China analysis and coverage
For wolf-warrior envoy in France, it's mission accomplished
Xi, not Trump, started on path to decoupling
Why Xi Jinping did not meet Taiwan's ex-president
Xi's chief of staff Cai Qi is symbol of powerful court
Heavyweight Xi Jinping gives himself a lightweight cabinet
Economic ministers are marginalized as the CCP takes over policymaking
In his parting words, Li Keqiang warns that 'heaven is watching'
Veiled dig comes as Xi neuters State Council to bolster party
Xi wants China's security apparatus under his direct grip
Could the US come to regard China as a state sponsor of terrorism?
Futuristic Chinese military unit most likely behind balloon campaign
PLA's Strategic Support Force blends space, cyber and electronic warfare
Was object spotted over Japan in 2020 a Chinese spy balloon?
Efforts to save face for Xi show same traits as abrupt cancelation of zero-COVID policy
Jack Ma downfall spells end of China's golden age
China's elderly pay ultimate price for COVID missteps
China's female protesters break nation free from zero-COVID
Quash the 'white paper' -- Xi's Chinese dream turns into nightmare
According to the news agency its most read commentary in 2022 was “Xi no longer described as 'people's leader' in China”
Recruiting Foreign Anti-China Forces
The latest anti-China diatribe from Nikkei focuses on ex-Trump adviser, Matthew Pottinger. Not content with reports provided by Japanese journalists, the agency with its deep pockets is also drawing on foreign war hawks to buttress its media propaganda drive against China.
In an article with the provocative title of "China 'Great White Shark' Fed By The West" on 4 May, Pottinger is fed a number of leading questions intended to confirm China under Xi as a threat to the US, Japan and other 'free countries'.
This he does with much enthusiasm.
No advisory is provided of Pottinger's background as a US hardline anti China idealogue who has worked in helping develop the Trump administration's policies against China. Instead the article refers to Pottinger’s current position as a “distinguished senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution” so as to give his opinion piece the aura of academic independence and legitimacy.
An admirer of Pottinger has described Pottinger’s position on China in the following way
If You Make China The Enemy, China Will be Your Enemy
In its China coverage and in disseminating the opinions of anti China personalities including US war mongering officials, Nikkei Asia appears not only to be ignorant of and oblivious to Japan's historical crimes against China, It also appears unable to practice truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, and public accountability in its China reporting.
Instead it is bent on pushing China to regard Japan as an enemy to take down. China has for now turned the other cheek against Japanese media seeking to undermine the development of peaceful relations between the two countries. But for how long can this policy of tolerance to a hostile giant media organization influencing Japanese public opinion and policy making continue?
