This article criticizes NHK’s watch9 for placing the United States and China on the same level over the Wuhan virus and WHO issue. It examines China’s responsibility, America’s justified response, Donald Trump’s directness, Japan’s true national strength, and the problem of nuclear deterrence.

April 16, 2020
To place America and China on the same level in this matter is to side with China; no, it is tantamount to declaring that one is, like Tedros of the WHO, an agent of China.
NHK’s watch9 has long believed that it is correct to comment by placing America and China on the same level.
It was when Arima was hosting the program with Kuwako.
Without the slightest hesitation, he calmly said that Japan stands between the two great powers, America and China.
At that moment, too, I was convinced that this man was a man who thoroughly belittled Japan and reduced it to something small through self-abasement.
No one who knows Japan’s true ability, its economic power, its academic power, its national strength, and its military potential would ever make such a remark.
In every possible situation, he habitually belittles Japan and reduces it through self-abasement.
Without even knowing that there is no basis for such conduct, he places himself and his kind in an almighty position.
The state of this man’s mind is that of a labor-union activist.
Last night, as already mentioned, in response to America’s entirely natural decision regarding the WHO, Arima, unbelievably, repeatedly spoke by placing America and China on the same level.
Anyone with clear eyes can understand how malicious it is, in the matter of the Wuhan virus, to place America and China on the same level.
To place America and China on the same level in this matter is to side with China; no, it is tantamount to declaring that one is, like Tedros of the WHO, an agent of China.
Furthermore, if I were an American, his remarks would make me furious.
Arima annotated America’s criticism of and decision regarding the WHO as if they were intended to conceal the Trump administration’s failure to suppress the virus.
Trump does not lie.
Trump said it at his press conference.
“Americans are not a people who live in a highly disciplined manner.
In other words, America is a multiethnic nation, a collection of extremely diverse people, each of whom lives as he pleases.”
He is hiding absolutely nothing.
He is simply speaking straight.
When he was elected president, a Chinese government official said something sincerely.
Almost all people become politicians in order to make money, or become politicians because they want to make money.
The typical examples of this are the members of the Chinese Communist Party, that is, China’s politicians.
The fortunes they make are astronomical.
On the other hand, Trump became a politician even though he was already one of America’s leading billionaires.
That is the difference.
That is what is admirable.
Trump is a billionaire.
He has no need to look right or left for anyone’s approval.
He sees things straight and judges them straight.
That is why, when he saw the present situation in which Japan, which in substance remains the world’s second great power, a superpower, is threatened with nuclear weapons by the Communist dictatorships of China and North Korea, he spoke straight.
“Why doesn’t Japan just possess nuclear weapons?”
If it did so, America’s military burden would also be reduced.
This was indeed typical of Trump.
He did not have in mind the Constitution that GHQ imposed in order to weaken Japan permanently.
Nor did he have in mind the fact that, whenever several past prime ministers said that Japan too must possess nuclear weapons, they were all opposed and crushed.
As businessmen know, businessmen always look only at the present.
The past is useless to a businessman.
It is completely meaningless to try to sell a room in Trump Tower, which only people with great assets can buy, to someone who was rich in the past.
When two villains are trying to take your life, why do you not carry a pistol?
Moreover, no sermon will work on those two villains.
They are made of bottomless evil and plausible lies.
Why do you not possess nuclear weapons?
That is what Trump was saying.
He has absolutely no need to ingratiate himself with or flatter the naked king.
Because that naked king exists and will not disappear today or tomorrow, he merely deals with him.
In other words, for Japan, in order to deal with China and North Korea, if Japan does not possess nuclear weapons, then Japan itself is, on the contrary, the naked king.
Why does Japan not possess nuclear weapons?
That is the true meaning of his remark.
As already stated, in Arima’s final summary on last night’s watch9, I became convinced that he was an agent of China.