all men are brothers

Your attention might have been elsewhere, so I’d just like to remind you that there’s recently been a full scale war between China and a United Korea. China won after a terrible battle in front of its capital city, in which squadrons of overseas Chinese joined the sons of the Yellow Emperor and sacrificed themselves in human wave attacks against the foe in the name of their ancestral homeland. ESWN takes up the story in a translation from Sing Tao:

Apart from these 'competitions' between China and Japan/United States, the Chinese netizens also have an Internet game known as "Magical Sword." The Chinese netizens have engaged with Korean netizens in several 'bloody battle.s' This game was originally designed by some Americans. Last year, on an international serve, an alliance of Chinese players defeated the alliance of Korean players, thus ousting them from virtual existence. Later, a Korean company obtained the rights from the Americans and uilt a special edition for the Chinese players only. The alliance of Chinese players was then dissolved.

But more recently, the players from China and Korea engaged in another full-scale 'war'.
This time, the battlefield was in front of the China City formed by dozens of Chinese players. This city was besieged by an alliance of Korean players. The Koreans have played this game longer and therefore have good 'battle endurance.' The China City was about to fall into their hands, when the defenders issued an SOS appeal.

At this point, an astonishing phenomenon occurred. Hordes of supporters showed up like tides and most of their names were appended by .cn! They were all Chinese.

In the end, the Koreans were repelled. According to the computer tally, more than one hundred Koreans 'died' in front of the gates of China City, but they killed at least 2,000 Chinese defenders and their supporters. Most of the reinforcements had low 'battle skills' and they fought like as if they were suicide squads.

After the win, the Chinese defenders thanked these unknown reinforcements and found out that not all of these Chinese people came from China. There were some from Singapore, Malaysia, United States and Canada, but they all said that they were Chinese.

There was one supporting battalion of about 200 persons, but only 9 of them survived in the end. They told the Chinese defenders: "We are from Taiwan and this is the sum total of fighters that we can offer. When you have problems, we will come to help for sure because we are brothers!"

There’s echoes here of the football hooligan debate in the UK. I’m not sure whether this kind of thing actually stirs up nationalism or simply channels it into an appropriately absurd course. And unlike football violence, nobody actually gets hurt.