Kelly and other activists say the shield is the most significant and potent symbol of imperial aggression – and subsequent Indigenous self-protection and resistance – in existence.
Beijing saw Abe's December 2013 visit to the shrine as a symbol of military aggression and a refusal to acknowledge the brutality of Japan's occupation of China during the second world war.
For many Chinese, the palace, called Yuanmingyuan, is a symbol of imperial aggression by the West — it was looted in 1860 by British and French forces and burned to the ground.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to Yasukuni Shrine, the resting place of the souls of war criminals and a symbol of Japanese aggression to its neighbors, is an obstacle to improving ties with China, the Japanese foreign minister, Nobutaka Machimura, said.
Those comments resonated with many Pakistanis who view the C.I.A. missile strikes as a troubling symbol of American aggression — even if they occasionally kill Pakistan's own enemies, like the country's deputy Taliban leader, Wali ur-Rehman, who died in an attack last week.
On the other hand, quite a few readers own and love this breed, and they were hurt that once again pit bulls were used as a symbol of unnecessary aggression.
Also moving are such time-honored symbols of female aggression as vinyl trench coats, corset-wide belts with nickel-size studs and motorcycle boots.
The dead bird becomes a symbol of the unconscious aggression acted out by all the characters.
After 1945, Dresden fell to communist East Germany – which deliberately used the ruined city as a convenient Cold War symbol of "Anglo-American aggression".
