(Already, no doubt, the term China Basher has also been used, in certain quarters.)
This term was created, as pointed out in Japan Who Governs, Introduction, to dismiss and to defuse calls by spokesmen for reforms, overwhelmingly American reforms. See, for example, for some history of how this term was used and to what other terms it had been related, Whatever Happened To Japan-Bashing, an article by O'Connor.
Thus, the system these people were rightly, but too late, 'bashing', was overwhelmingly our own.
Only those who have not read these works can maintain that they were bashing something other than, overwhelmingly, our system, not theirs.
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