Chinese demonstrators stage an anti-Japanese protest over the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, China, on September 15, 2012 (Source:
The Atlantic). This was one of the significant pre-Great Panic events in East Asia. Various conspiracy theorists suggest that the Chinese Communist Party "sensationalized" the event so that international attention would be diverted to the dispute in order to cover-up Solanum Virus outbreaks occurring in rural parts of the mainland.