This article introduces a passage from Hanada’s interview with K. T. McFarland, former deputy national security adviser to President Trump, discussing the failure of the Chinese model, the concealment exposed by the coronavirus crisis, and the importance of cooperation among Japan, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and other nations that share the rule of law and democracy.

2020-05-15
It is important that these countries individually cooperate in fields such as technology transfer and economic investment, and set forth prohibitive measures against China.
It is necessary for countries all over the world to crack down on China’s illegal acts.
The following is a continuation of excerpts from a special interview article with K. T. McFarland, former deputy national security adviser to President Trump, published in this month’s issue of Hanada, a monthly magazine that is required reading not only for the Japanese people but for people all over the world, under the title “Trump Will Not Forgive Xi Jinping and the WHO!”
The Chinese Model Has Completely Failed
Let us return to the subject of China.
The United States is now concluding new trade agreements with countries such as Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
It is important that these countries individually cooperate in fields such as technology transfer and economic investment, and set forth prohibitive measures against China.
It is necessary for countries all over the world to crack down on China’s illegal acts.
Cooperation among countries that share the common values of the rule of law and democracy will become even more important in dealing with China.
What became even more evident through this coronavirus crisis was that China is both an economic competitor and a rising threat.
As a result, the importance of America’s allies in Asia has increased even further.
In particular, Japan and South Korea are the most important allies for the United States in Asia, and those relationships will become even more important.
Japan-Korea relations will also become important.
President Trump and many other people involved in diplomacy also understand the importance of U.S.-Taiwan relations.
The EU began under the concept of allowing people to move freely without establishing borders, but in its response to this coronavirus crisis, each country acted separately, and it can be said that its measures failed.
For the United States, the importance of the EU and other European countries is also declining in relative terms.
The same can probably be said about the Middle East.
The crisis brought about by the coronavirus has also made clear that there are two systems in the world, the Chinese model and the Western model, and it has become clear that the Chinese model will no longer do.
Politics is dictatorship, and the economy is state-led capitalism.
This is the Chinese model, and its greatest defect is that everything is opaque.
The coronavirus crisis made its concealment-oriented nature evident and exposed its defects as a system.
China has until now claimed that “democracy and the free economy do not work, and the 21st century will become China’s century,” but in reality, it can be said that the Chinese model has completely failed.
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