2024-02-22
Reposted! On the Responsibility of the Chinese Communist Party Regime
2021-10-17
Drawing on his specialized knowledge and a vast amount of information…the conclusion he reached was, namely, “a 99% probability that it originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
The following is from a book of dialogues between Shi Ping and Hideki Kakeya, published a few days ago.
Emphasis in the text, other than in the headings, is mine.
Introduction 《Shi Ping》
Through a project organized by Kaya Shobo, I recently held a series of discussions with Hideki Kakeya, an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba.
Over the years, I have had opportunities to engage in discussions with people from various fields, including writers, journalists, economists, and historians, but this was my first dialogue with a scholar in the natural sciences, making it an exceptionally fresh and valuable experience in intellectual exchange.
Kakeya studied biochemistry in the Faculty of Science at the University of Tokyo, mathematical engineering in the university’s master’s program, and advanced interdisciplinary engineering in its doctoral program, where he earned his doctorate.
His academic background alone makes it clear that he is an outstanding scholar even among outstanding scholars, but today, while teaching at the University of Tsukuba, he also conducts interdisciplinary research as an information engineer in fields such as three-dimensional imaging engineering and natural language processing, making him one of the rising scientists working at the very forefront of our times.
Kakeya’s academic interests and activities extend beyond the natural sciences.
He has published books including Japan’s “Liberals”—Forces That Proclaim Freedom While Threatening It, What Is Scholarship? The Ethics of Experts, the Media, and Science and Technology, and Enemies of Humanity: How to Protect Freedom from Communist Forces, boldly crossing into other fields such as the social sciences and the study of ideology, and raising many important questions along the way.
Engaging in dialogue with such an erudite and versatile researcher was both a valuable experience in my life as a commentator and an opportunity to learn a great deal from an intellectual in an entirely different field.
In my usual work as a commentator, I sometimes make leaps in my thinking and sometimes become emotional, but throughout our discussions, Kakeya remained calm and composed, consistently adhering to rigorous logical thinking.
Of course, there were also moments when he spoke passionately, with extraordinary enthusiasm, about the points he wished to convey.
In this way, we ranged freely and widely over issues from U.S.–China confrontation to Japan–China relations, and from the Taiwan question to the struggle between the free world and dictatorial systems.
Among these discussions, the one from which I personally learned a particularly great deal was, indeed, the discussion of the origins of the novel coronavirus.
When it comes to this subject, Kakeya, who studied biochemistry in the Faculty of Science at the University of Tokyo, is truly in his element.
Moreover, Kakeya has taken a deep interest in this issue and has read numerous reports of the world’s most advanced research on coronavirus origins in their original English.
In his discussions with me, Kakeya drew on his specialized knowledge and a vast amount of information to get to the heart of the issue and investigate the origins of the coronavirus in depth, explaining his reasoning with exceptional clarity and logical coherence.
The conclusion he reached was, namely, “a 99% probability that it originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology”—a conclusion I found highly convincing.
I will leave the specific details for you to enjoy reading, but I believe that Kakeya’s logical, scholarly analysis seeking to establish the origins of the coronavirus has very important significance.
This is because, by clarifying the responsibility of the Chinese Communist Party regime, which spread the coronavirus throughout the world and claimed more than four million lives, it was possible to bring into even sharper relief the horrifying nature and dangers of this evil political party, which marked the centenary of its founding this year.
How to protect the security and peace of the free world from the threat posed by this evil political party is precisely our shared concern, and we two participants in the dialogue also discussed this great issue of the century at length and offered various constructive proposals.
The result is our first book of dialogues, which is now in your hands.
We are confident that this volume will be of great help in deepening your understanding not only of the origins of the novel coronavirus but also of the various issues surrounding “China” and the international environment surrounding it.
Furthermore, I believe that the dialogue between myself, with my background in the humanities, and Kakeya, with his background in the sciences, will offer readers a considerable sense of freshness as people with different patterns of thought reach a shared understanding through discussion, while also presenting a novel style of dialogue that may serve as a useful reference.
Finally, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Kaya Shobo for organizing these discussions and to Hideki Kakeya for graciously agreeing to engage in dialogue with me.
And to all the readers who have picked up this book, I simply wish to bow my head and offer my thanks.
On an auspicious day in September 2021
At Dokuraku-an, in the vicinity of Saidaiji, Nara
Shi Ping