This article, dated April 27, 2020, draws on a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Miki Otaka published in a monthly magazine to examine China’s propaganda war, its fraudulent handling of the Senkaku Islands issue, anti-Japanese apologists, and fabricating media. It argues that the Wuhan pneumonia crisis has exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s lies and attempts to shift responsibility to the world.

April 27, 2020
After that, Deng Xiaoping also said, “Let us leave the Senkaku issue to later generations.”
Before one knows it, they turn it into a disputed territory between the two countries.
This is not something a proper politician does.
It is the method of a fraudster.
The following is from a special dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Miki Otaka, published in the monthly magazine released on April 24, which every Japanese citizen should read, under the title “People Infected by the China Virus, Which Is More Frightening Than Corona.”
The multiplying anti-Japanese apology men.
Takayama:
I read your new book, Japan o Otoshimeru――“Hannichi Shazai Otoko to Netsuzo Media” no Shotai, WAC.
It is interesting!
Otaka:
Thank you.
It seems that among Japanese people there are many “anti-Japanese apology men” who swallow the propaganda war of China and the Korean Peninsula whole and wag their tails.
Takayama:
At the top of the list are Uichiro Niwa and Yukio Hatoyama, perhaps.
Otaka:
China is desperate in its propaganda activities to wipe away the disgrace of having spread corona throughout the world.
Furthermore, under the slogan of the 61st anniversary of the liberation of one million serfs in Tibet, it has a certain Tibetan say, “After the painful days of old Tibet, life today is as wonderful as a dream.
In 2019, the dividend bonus my family received from the village’s collective economy exceeded 100,000 yuan.”
People’s Daily Japanese edition, March 28.
Takayama:
Your book also introduces how China uses Uyghur children for propaganda.
It showed photographs of children taking ski lessons and made it appear as if they were innocently enjoying playing in the snow.
All of it is nothing more than political propaganda designed to divert attention from the facts of persecution.
Otaka:
In addition, although the Belt and Road Initiative was in fact a “corona road,” China is reporting that, together with partners around the world, it is now building a “Health Silk Road,” a health community to protect public health for humanity.
China Net Japanese edition, March 30.
That is truly tearful effort.
It shamelessly conducts a childish propaganda war at which people around the world can only smile wryly.
But there are probably Japanese people who innocently believe such Chinese propaganda.
Takayama:
China is a genius at lying.
Even though it has been watching the Senkaku Islands with a greedy eye because oil lies beneath them, Zhou Enlai dodged the sovereignty issue by saying, “Now is not the time to discuss it,” and gave no clear answer.
After that, Deng Xiaoping also said, “Let us leave the Senkaku issue to later generations.”
Before one knows it, they turn it into a disputed territory between the two countries.
This is not something a proper politician does.
It is the method of a fraudster.
Otaka:
Even amid this corona crisis, the number of Chinese government vessels is, if anything, only continuing to increase.
Takayama:
China does such lies without hesitation.
The Chinese journalist Lin Yutang, 1895–1976, wrote something interesting.
What do Chinese people do in a day?
In the morning, tai chi.
Then they play go, enjoy calligraphy, and in the afternoon, speak ill of Japanese people.
Everyone bursts into laughter.
“Anti-Japanese sentiment” is one of their hobbies.
Otaka:
For Koreans, who call themselves “Little China,” “anti-Japanese sentiment” seems like a vitamin supplement.
Takayama:
It is exactly the Hua-Yi order.
South Korea takes China’s lying propaganda activities, shrinks them down, and spreads them loudly.
Otaka:
A crisis is an opportunity.
The Wuhan pneumonia is the perfect opportunity for China’s lies to become known throughout the world.
Takayama:
Exactly.
When Trump rephrased it as the “Chinese virus,” China was like water off a frog’s face.
On the contrary, it retorted that the virus had been brought in by the United States.
Amid such exchanges, The New York Times wrote, “Now is the time for both China and America to each contribute wisdom in order to contain the coronavirus.”
It sounds like something written by a certain newspaper.
Otaka:
You mean the Asahi Shimbun, which wrote things such as, “Rather than excluding Chinese people, let us wash our hands together.”
Takayama:
The one who publicly said that “the United States brought it in” was Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and in response, Trump rephrased it as the “Chinese virus.”
One could feel his anger at the fact that China felt no responsibility toward the international community, but The New York Times writes that the United States and China should stop quarrelling at the same level.
By doing this, it pulls Trump down and makes China appear like a responsible country.
This is truly a skillful disinformation article.
Otaka:
It is proof that China’s information operations have penetrated even the major American mass media.
And Japan is even worse……
Just imagining it makes me feel gloomy.
Takayama:
They take a small fact and report it as if it were a great truth by enlarging its size.
They stretch it so much that the whole picture becomes blurred.
Otaka:
Hillary also sided with Beijing, saying it was “racism” when President Trump called it the “Chinese virus.”
A great deal of China money must have gone into the Clinton Foundation……
Takayama:
The source of the fire is clear, so this is not a matter of racism or anything of that level.
Otaka:
China made the source of infection the United States, and for a time, with subtle expressions that left itself an escape route, it even began to suggest Japan.
Then it suggested Italy as well.
Whenever there is an opening, it tries to shift responsibility and pin the blame on others.
This article will continue.