This article examines how the Chinese Communist Party concealed the spread of the Wuhan virus while buying up masks and PPE worldwide, only later presenting itself as a provider of aid. It records export bans affecting U.S. and Canadian companies, the silence of Japanese media, and leaked internal documents revealing the crisis shaking Xi Jinping’s regime.

2020-06-06
American company 3M and Canadian company Medicom, both of which manufacture locally in China, were also hit by export bans.
It goes without saying that President Trump was furious when he learned of this.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
An arsonist pretending to be a firefighter
In Japan, too, masks disappeared from the streets in an instant after January.
That was because, in addition to the stockpiling, China banned the export of masks manufactured domestically.
American company 3M and Canadian company Medicom, both of which manufacture locally in China, were also hit by export bans.
It goes without saying that President Trump was furious when he learned of this.
＊It is a fact known to all viewers that those who control NHK’s news department did not report this fact at all.＊
After domestic infections in China had settled down somewhat, China began donating masks, PPE, and coronavirus test kits to countries where infections had spread, and sending medical teams there.
Masks were also sent to Japan by Chinese companies, individuals, and local governments.
In Japan, reports treating these moves favorably as “China repaying kindness” have overflowed.
Certainly, when an explosion of infections occurred in China, many Japanese companies, local governments, and individuals donated supplies to China, so one might say that this was a return of that kindness.
For example, it is said that Tokyo sent at least 330,000 protective suits to China.
But I want you to think carefully.
It was China that, while concealing the spread of infections, bought up masks and PPE around the world and drove each country into an abnormal shortage of goods.
And according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, it did so “intentionally.”
As has become clear from reports in the United States and Canada, if Japan is now gratefully receiving masks from such a China, is that not far too naive?
Michael Sobolik, a young researcher at the American Foreign Policy Council, described the Chinese Communist Party’s self-congratulatory mask diplomacy as “an arsonist pretending to be a firefighter.”
It is an exceptionally apt phrase.
If, through an organized major operation, a firefighter who had been arranged in advance later appeared unhurriedly on the scene, then he is “an actor beyond a firefighter.”
Behind this great disaster, the CCP had put its evil wisdom to work and carried out an operation on a magnificent scale.
There is nothing to say but, “The CCP is truly terrifying.”
China is now vigorously proclaiming that it has escaped the epidemic ahead of others and has “entered a recovery track.”
But is that really true?
A situation that could shake the very foundations of the Chinese Communist Party is progressing in the deepest part of the ruling class.
Internal information that should have been top secret is leaking, one piece after another, to Western news organizations.
Let me introduce several examples.
On April 15, the Associated Press reported that although China’s top Communist Party leaders knew as of January 14 that “an abnormal epidemic was spreading in Wuhan,” President Xi Jinping did not move, and issued his first statement only on January 20.
The report was based on internal Communist Party documents obtained independently.
The astonishing contents of the internal documents
The delay was not limited to those six days.
From January 5 to January 17 before that, although several hundred patients had appeared across China, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, had not registered a single patient in its data.
Another memo reportedly stated that “the cluster cases indicate that human-to-human transmission may also be possible.”
In other words, from January 5 until the 20th, when Xi’s official statement was issued, the Communist Party leadership had failed, for more than two full weeks, to grasp the actual state of the infection with anything close to accuracy.
What was happening in mid-January?
On January 15, Caixin, a Chinese media outlet that had been energetically reporting on the infection status of the new pneumonia, reported that “a radiologist at a Wuhan hospital discovered 50 new cases,” according to a report by the British think tank the Henry Jackson Society.
Caixin is well known as a media outlet resistant to the government.
In other words, although information about infections was flowing domestically through the media, the party leadership and bureaucratic organization did not grasp the reality.
This itself is astonishing, but what I focus on is the fact that such a shoddy reality was “exposed through the leak of internal documents.”
Let me give one more example.
This one is even more important.
On May 4, Reuters reported that a Chinese think tank had warned that “because of the explosion of infections caused by the novel coronavirus, China is facing hostility so severe that it could even lead to military conflict with the United States.”
This, too, was a report based on an internal document.
The organization that wrote this report was the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, or CICIR.
It is not merely a think tank.
It is an affiliated organization of the Ministry of State Security, which oversees China’s intelligence agencies and its entire security policy.
Until 1980, it was placed inside that ministry.
One might call it a “shadow policy-planning organ” directly under the Party.
In writing the article, Reuters sought comment from the Ministry of State Security, but there was reportedly no department responsible for responding to outside media inquiries.
This reveals the closed nature of the organization.
The report was submitted in early April, through the Ministry of State Security, to top leaders including President Xi Jinping.
Its contents were as follows.
・“In response to the spread of the novel coronavirus, anti-China sentiment spreading around the world is rising to a level not seen since the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989.”
・“As a result, after the infection subsides, China will face a great wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States, and it will need to prepare for the worst-case scenario, including military conflict with the United States.”
・“The United States views China’s rise as ‘an economic and security threat to Western democracies,’ and by causing the Chinese people to lose trust in the Party, the United States aims to bring about the collapse of state rule by the Chinese Communist Party.”
・“The anti-China sentiment heightened by the spread of the novel coronavirus will intensify opposition to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Therefore, if the United States strengthens financial and military support for its allies, the security environment in Asia will become even more fluid.”
This article continues.