Drawing on a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Eitaro Ogawa in WiLL magazine, this article examines China’s responsibility for the Wuhan virus, international compensation claims, the Wuhan laboratory leak theory, and the limits of Chinese Communist propaganda and China money.

June 8, 2020
While everyone is presently rushing about to bring the current situation under control, it is still only a war of words, but sooner or later the world will hold China responsible.
The monthly magazines I refer to are must-reading not only for the Japanese people, but for people all over the world.
After all, although they are filled with genuine articles like this one, they cost only 950 yen.
The following is from a special dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Eitaro Ogawa, published in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine WiLL under the title, “Designate China, the War-Criminal Nation of the Wuhan Virus, as a Terrorist State.”
Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
Eitaro Ogawa, for a book in which he criticized the Asahi Shimbun in the most natural and justified way, was, unbelievably, sued by the Asahi Shimbun, which is supposed to be an organ of speech, for a large amount of damages, in other words, subjected to a harassment lawsuit.
Even while suffering great financial loss, he has continued to write essays without flinching in the slightest.
He is one of the prides among graduates of the Faculty of Letters at Osaka University.
Historical necessity.
Ogawa
It is a stern fact that, because of the sins of commission or omission by the Chinese government, hundreds of thousands of people who should not have died have died.
While everyone is presently rushing about to bring the current situation under control, it is still only a war of words, but sooner or later the world will hold China responsible.
Takayama
The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit seeking several billion dollars in damages from China.
The attorney general himself says that the Communist Party government’s information control caused the spread of infection and brought about economic losses.
Bild, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Germany, also presented a specific compensation figure in a signed column by its editor-in-chief, saying that “China owes Germany a total of 165 billion dollars, approximately 18 trillion yen, in compensation.”
In India, Nigeria, and Turkey as well, movements demanding compensation are gaining momentum.
Tedros, the Ethiopian, is symbolic, but Africa is deeply soaked in China money and has become obedient to China.
However, Kenya and Ghana have begun to raise their voices.
They have started saying that unless the Chinese government pays compensation, or improves their medical systems, they will not repay their debts.
Ogawa
Over the past twenty years, the Chinese Communist Party has skillfully ensnared white people.
Resting on the laurels of its past successes, it may think that, as before, it can bring the world around by making full use of propaganda and China money.
But it will come to regret that far too naïve recognition.
Takayama
When the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was built, France cooperated fully.
France probably approached China through virus research in order to enter the Chinese market.
However, once China had obtained only the know-how, it pushed France out, and afterward conducted experiments under a management system so sloppy that even researchers were astonished.
It is also known that, the year before last, experts from the American Embassy visited the laboratory and reported to the State Department that “research was being conducted in an environment with insufficient safety measures, and there was a risk of infection spreading to humans.”
Leaving aside the theory of an artificial virus, a leak from the laboratory is entirely possible.
Ogawa
I do not think Xi Jinping deliberately allowed it to leak.
The response afterward was far too stupid for that.
However, I also think the possibility of a leak from the laboratory is high.
By chance, a researcher very close to me visited the microbiology institute in Wuhan in mid-December, and he says that there was no sign of people at all, which felt strange.
Then, in early January, North Korea reacted, and in mid-January Taiwan reacted.
Yet Xi Jinping seems to have noticed the abnormal situation only around January 20.
I have the feeling that some kind of reversed or confused situation was taking place.
Takayama
It seems almost certain that China was the source.
Shi Zhengli, deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, denied that the virus had leaked from the institute.
But she herself has said, “The novel coronavirus is a punishment that nature has imposed on humankind for its uncivilized living habits.”
She lumps it all together as humankind, but the only people who eat bats and rats are Chinese people.
Because they are people with no connection to cleanliness or a sense of hygiene, her point is correct only when applied to Chinese people.
As proof, in the past, the plague, the Spanish flu, and SARS, all of which nearly destroyed the world, were all produced by China inside its own country and scattered around the world.
Before the coronavirus, China was called the factory of the world.
It was also called an excellent market, but it is also the country that produced SARS and the coronavirus.
A little before that, there was the Hong Kong flu.
If a country places its supply chain in such a place, in the near future it will surely encounter another pandemic.
It is better to think of China and epidemics as synonymous.
This article continues.