After picking up a bestselling collection of Einstein’s quotations, this essay contrasts the mindset shared by true global elites with that of China’s one-party communist rulers, while referencing an article in VOICE written by a former China correspondent and editor-in-chief of Shukan Gendai as essential reading for Japan and the world.

It was a bestselling collection of quotations by Albert Einstein. I decided to purchase it.
2016-12-22
Because the Starbucks was full, I sat on a chair inside Kinokuniya Bookstore and drank my coffee.
Various books were laid out in front of me.
My close friend recommended a photo book of a cat living in a sumo stable.
After finishing browsing through them, I picked up the book in front of me.
It was a bestselling collection of Einstein’s quotations. I decided to buy it.
What is written there is no different at all from the minds of the Japanese elites, of whom I am one.
However, standing at the complete opposite of the thinking shared by all true elites is the mindset of China’s one-party communist dictators.
Or rather, China is a country without a history that has continued uninterrupted since ancient times.
It is a country whose history has been repeatedly severed in units of a hundred years, and the clear difference between its current rulers and the world’s elites.
Is explained by the editor-in-chief of Shukan Gendai, a graduate of the University of Tokyo who joined Kodansha and spent four years stationed in China.
In an article he wrote in this month’s issue of the magazine VOICE.
This too is an essay that the Japanese people and people all over the world should read.