Reflecting on Newsweek Japan’s special issue on the new U.S.-China Cold War, this chapter points out a fundamental blind spot in discussions of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship. It argues that the regime is not unshakable, and that large-scale sabotage by the Chinese people, legitimate claims for damages against China, and the withdrawal of production bases from China could shake the system to its foundations and bring it to an end.

June 15, 2020
The Chinese Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship would be shaken to its foundations if the majority of the Chinese people simply stopped going to work for one week — in other words, if they began sabotage.
If it continued for one month, they would come to a complete end.

Noriyoshi Hanada wrote in his column in the Sankei Shimbun that the special issue “The New U.S.-China Cold War 2020” was good, so I bought Newsweek Japan for the first time in a very long while.
I had subscribed to the Japanese edition continuously from around the time it first appeared.
At one point, the Japanese writer changed, and articles by a former Foreign Ministry official began to appear.
Just when I was thinking that these were mediocre essays unworthy of Newsweek, this man wrote something to the effect that “the moment one says that the Nanjing Massacre is not true, one is ignored in the United States.”
As my readers know, until then I had praised this magazine.
But the moment I read that article, I thought that this magazine, too, was finished, and I stopped my subscription.
I had continued subscribing to it for a truly long time.
When the company that managed this magazine went bankrupt, I had more than fully responded to the spirit of the 91-year-old founder of JBL, who rescued it.
Certainly, as Hanada says, it is far better than the reporting of the Asahi Shimbun or NHK.
However, there is one viewpoint that all of these excellent commentators uniformly overlook.
They all look at matters only from the viewpoint that the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship is rock-solid.
As I suddenly realized and wrote before, in reality, that is not the case.
The Chinese Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship would be shaken to its foundations if the majority of the Chinese people simply stopped going to work for one week — in other words, if they began sabotage.
If it continued for one month, they would come to a complete end.
It is also entirely natural that claims for damages must be brought against China.
It is entirely natural to bring production bases back from China.
That alone would bring the Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship to an end.
Economic discussions that lack this viewpoint are no better than child’s play.