Beijing was desperately working to deceive the entire international community, and as a result, it brought great suffering to the world.
June 26, 2020
The following is from an article by Professor Clive Hamilton of Charles Sturt University, published today in the monthly magazine WiLL under the title “Xi Jinping’s ‘Invisible Invasion’ Advancing Even in Japan.”
WiLL is filled with articles that are must-reads not only for the Japanese people but for people around the world, just like this one.
All emphasis within the text and the ＊～＊ are mine.
Report and composition by Shinji Okuyama.
Bringing Great Suffering to the World
Through the current novel coronavirus issue, the international community has come to fully realize the opacity of the Chinese Communist Party.
What became clear from Beijing’s response to the outbreak of the virus was that the Chinese Communist Party was extremely fearful of losing control over information.
This is evident from the fact that, in the initial stages, the Chinese government took a highly punitive approach against doctors and scientists who were trying to sound the alarm and provide information to the general public.
Beijing was desperately working to deceive the entire international community, and as a result, it brought great suffering to the world.
＊The ones who have been hiding this fact from the very beginning until today, claiming it is not China’s responsibility, are those who control the news division of NHK. They have made singers favored by NHK say things like, “The virus must have come from outer space,” and just the other day, on a program hosted by Professor Yamanaka, they brought on a Kyoto University professor under the influence of the Chinese government to assert, “This coronavirus is from the natural world.” They also featured, at length on Watch 9, an old man named Ken Loach, whom the vast majority of Japanese people have never heard of, using him to manipulate information to prevent the public’s anger over this catastrophe from being directed at China.
Regarding the statement made by the Kyoto University professor, he must have visited China numerous times at academic conferences and similar events.
If he is a scholar esteemed enough to appear on a program hosted by Professor Yamanaka on NHK, it is all the more unnatural to think that he would believe China has taken no action at all.
As for my deep-seated anger toward this Kyoto University professor.
Yang Yi, the first Chinese person to win the Akutagawa Prize, expressed it as “a fiery, soul-deep anger” in a publication advertisement that appeared on page 2 of yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun (a photo of which will be attached below).＊
It was only recently that I began to take an interest in the China issue.
Around 2016, I started to become concerned about the Chinese Communist Party’s interference in Australia, so I first spoke with domestic China experts, particularly those knowledgeable about the CCP’s influence operations.
They were surprisingly cooperative, and as I interviewed them and received recommendations for various literature, I gradually began to form a complete picture, prompting me to travel to mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States to conduct repeated interviews.
After reading through an enormous volume of literature, I was finally able to see the complete shape of the issue.
Thus, I began writing Silent Invasion (published by the same company) in October 2016.
From around the summer of that year, a few articles had begun appearing in Australian newspapers reporting that the Chinese Communist Party was trying to influence Australian politics. Because of this, I contacted an editor I knew from a publishing company that had published several of my previous books, and he replied, “That’s a fantastic idea. Let’s do it immediately.” So I began writing.
I spent the entirety of 2017 conducting research and writing, and after completing the draft, I had three or four experts read it.
Since this was a new field for me, I asked the experts to check it for mistakes and omissions and to tell me if there were areas where further investigation was needed.
There was also a scandal that served as another catalyst for writing this book. A Labor Party senator named Sam Dastyari was discovered to have received large donations from a Chinese businessman, leading to a major uproar.
This businessman resided in Australia but had close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and Dastyari, having been drawn into the network of influence operations, began to engage in truly bizarre behavior.
For example, he gathered members of the Chinese-language media in Australia for a press conference and stated, “Australia should not interfere in the South China Sea issue.”
This was precisely what Beijing wanted someone to say on their behalf.
＊Upon reading this section, I immediately recalled something. At the time, I knew nothing about the reality of these people, and I happened to be watching Hōdō Station, which was hosted by Furudate.
A scholar named Takeshi Nakajima, a scholar favored by TV Asahi (and by the Asahi Shimbun), appeared as a commentator when China began its aggression in the South China Sea and said something utterly absurd. “If you look at the map of the South China Sea upside down, it looks like China’s inland sea…”
I already had suspicions about this young man (and I say this deliberately), but this statement confirmed it decisively.
Since this statement, I have held an unforgivable anger toward this young man, toward TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station, and toward Furudate, who hosted the program. It is the anger of having been deceived for so many years by this man.
Perhaps it is because they are birds of a feather with those who control NHK’s news division, but NHK pays high fees to scoundrels like this and produces programs during prime time.
It goes without saying that I have never watched such programs, not even once.
Whenever such a program begins, I immediately change the channel.
Considering the many years I was deceived by Furudate, and the unforgivable anger I hold toward him, this is only natural.＊
(To be continued.)
Professor Clive Hamilton’s article is also a must-read for the Japanese people.
It is released today.
I must head to the nearest bookstore to purchase it.
