Yoshiko Sakurai argues that the Chinese Communist Party is in the midst of a crisis caused by stalled economic growth, declining living standards, and the absence of freedom and human rights, and that it is an isolated regime with no true friends in the international community.

May 21, 2020
Now that economic growth has stopped and the standard of the people’s real lives is declining, public dissatisfaction is growing, and the Chinese Communist Party is in the midst of a crisis.
The following is a continuation of the “Introduction” to Yoshiko Sakurai’s book, The Lies of the Pro-China Faction, published on May 12.
She is a “national treasure” as defined by Saicho, and one of Japan’s treasures.
The employees of newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun and television stations such as NHK must read this with their eyes wide open if they wish to be Japanese people who are “national treasures” rather than “traitors to the nation.”
This does not apply, however, to those who are not truly Japanese, but live according to the anti-Japanese propaganda of the Korean Peninsula and China.
Emphases in the text, other than the headings, are mine.
The Limits of the Chinese Communist Party
The people of China harbor no small amount of dissatisfaction with such things.
Now that economic growth has stopped and the standard of the people’s real lives is declining, public dissatisfaction is growing, and the Chinese Communist Party is in the midst of a crisis.
To overcome it, Xi would have to put forward policies almost entirely opposite to those of his seven years of rule.
He would have to expand freedom of speech and expression and loosen centralization.
The economy would have to shift from being centered on state-owned enterprises to a free economy.
However, that would be impossible for Xi.
The moment he changed direction, Xi would inevitably fall amid a great tectonic shift among the Chinese people, driven by their thirst for freedom.
There are almost no countries in the international community that side with Xi’s China.
Even among countries that obey China because they fear it, few would voluntarily wish to walk together with China.
There are almost no countries, other than Russia and North Korea, that approve of China’s national character.
China has no friends in the international community.
China is isolated.
Such a Chinese Communist Party will inevitably have no choice but to retreat as a historical necessity.
On the other hand, in Japan and the United States, the judgment of each individual citizen forms the basis for determining the direction of the country.
Each person’s way of thinking differs, public opinion is difficult to unify, and as a political system, democracy is not efficient in contrast to one-party dictatorship.
However, human happiness is born where freedom is guaranteed and human rights are respected.
A human life without freedom and human rights cannot possibly be happy.
A happy group of human beings, each thinking in his own way, and only on the basis of those thoughts do society and the nation move.
That is democracy.
When I think of the many people suffering under the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, and many others including Han Chinese under oppression, I see the limits of the Chinese Communist Party, which makes no one happy.
A government or country that does not make people happy has no choice but to leave the stage.
The China portrayed by the pro-China faction as a good neighbor with whom we should seek reconciliation is an illusion.