Referring to Sankei Shimbun’s Sankei-sho column, this article criticizes Wuhan authorities’ revision of coronavirus death and infection figures, distrust of Chinese official data, China’s absurd claims regarding the Nanjing Incident, and WHO Director-General Tedros’s pro-China stance. It also questions postwar Japan’s disease of blindly worshiping international organizations.

April 19, 2020
There is no reason to take at face value data from a country that calmly insists on the absurd claim that the victims of the Nanjing Incident numbered 350,000.
The following is from yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun, from Sankei-sho.
Confucius said, “Do not hesitate to correct your mistakes.”
On the 17th, the authorities of Wuhan, China, corrected the number of deaths and infections caused by the novel coronavirus, revealing that there were 1,290 more deaths and 325 more infections than previously announced.
The total number of deaths in the city became 3,869, and the total number of infections became 50,333.
That said, everyone knows that the figures issued by the Chinese authorities are dubious.
It is not clear whether this correction truly reflects the actual situation.
There is no reason to take at face value data from a country that calmly insists on the absurd claim that the victims of the Nanjing Incident numbered 350,000.
Unlike China, because it had at least a certain degree of trust, the organization whose reputation has fallen sharply is the World Health Organization, WHO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, and its head, Director-General Tedros.
Tedros, who had been health minister of Ethiopia, a country receiving huge investment from China, has continued to stand close to China.
Seeing this, some people may have learned the true inside of international organizations and become disillusioned.
“If WHO had pointed out China’s lack of transparency, the spread of infection could have been contained and the number of deaths could have been kept low.”
President Trump emphasized this at a press conference on the 14th and clearly stated that the United States would suspend its contributions to WHO.
Considering that the number of deaths in the United States has exceeded 30,000, this is understandable.
Tedros has praised China’s coronavirus measures so far and expressed concern that the measures by various countries to evacuate their own citizens from Wuhan were “overreactions.”
Even on February 3, after WHO had declared an emergency, he appealed that “measures that unnecessarily interfere with travel and trade to China are not necessary.”
This can only be seen as consideration for the Chinese economy.
“The United Nations is more trustworthy than the Japanese.”
More than ten years ago, I heard a certain major politician insist on this.
The postwar disease of not trusting one’s own country and instead worshiping international organizations must, after all, be overcome.