Through an essay by Kumiko Takeuchi, this chapter examines the WHO’s delayed emergency declaration over the novel pneumonia outbreak, China’s concealment of information, and its growing influence over international organizations. It also questions Japan’s past policy of rescuing China after Tiananmen and the danger of inviting Xi Jinping as a state guest.

2020-03-25
In fact, it was none other than Japan that created the greatest cause of China’s economic development, military expansion, and the kind of “silent invasion” we now see in the WHO.
“I appeal, through this video, to people all over the world to put the pressure of public opinion on the Chinese government and make it bear responsibility.”
I am republishing the chapter I sent out on 2020-02-05 under that title.
The following is from an essay by Kumiko Takeuchi, an animal behavior researcher and essayist, published in the Sankei Shimbun under the title “Novel Pneumonia and the WHO under Chinese Influence.”
As I have mentioned many times, she too, like Junko Miyawaki and others, is a person worthy of the intellect of one who studied at Kyoto University.
Needless to say, she too is one of the “national treasures” as defined by Saicho.
I live near one of Kyoto’s five most famous tourist spots.
For more than ten years now, when I go out during the day, I have heard Chinese more often than Japanese.
Even at the supermarket I regularly use, tourists from that country shop quite normally.
Even though this is a situation in which every moment counts.
For that reason, the news of the novel pneumonia now shaking the whole world is by no means someone else’s affair to me.
On January 31, news came that represented a small step forward.
On January 28, a cabinet order was decided to designate the novel pneumonia as a “designated infectious disease,” but because this cabinet order involved penalties, it had been scheduled to take effect on February 7.
I was beside myself with indignation, asking what they thought they were doing in a situation where every moment counted, but the enforcement date was moved forward to February 1.
This made it possible to refuse entry to infected persons and to strengthen immigration control even when infection could not be confirmed.
Also, on January 24, regarding travel to China, Hubei Province was raised to Level 3, meaning “Do not travel” — a recommendation to cancel travel — and on the 31st, the other provinces were raised to Level 2, meaning “Avoid nonessential and nonurgent travel.”
At the same time, however, in the United States, which should have been at far lower risk than Japan, the travel alert for China was Level 4, the highest level, meaning “Do not travel.”
Thereafter, entry by those who had visited China was also banned.
Compared with the United States, how lukewarm Japan was — and this too made me indignant.
But what made me even more indignant, indeed angry enough to make my hair stand on end, was that Japan’s enforcement of the cabinet order on the “designated infectious disease,” the raising of the travel alert levels, and the United States’ travel ban were all responses to the WHO’s declaration of a “public health emergency,” and that declaration came far too late.
In such a grave situation, why did they not issue the “emergency declaration” much earlier?
Shamefully, it is pointed out that WHO Director-General Tedros is from Ethiopia, and that Chinese money lay behind the rise of this former Ethiopian health minister to his current position.
Director-General Tedros visited China on January 28, in the middle of the uproar, and many people must have seen the photograph of him shaking hands with President Xi Jinping with a broad smile on his face.
A silent invasion of international organizations.
China has not only bestowed favors on Director-General Tedros, but also on Ethiopia as a nation, and on many developing countries beginning with those in Africa, through extraordinary investments.
It can be said that the WHO, the United Nations, and almost all international organizations have virtually been taken over by China.
In fact, it was none other than Japan that created the greatest cause of China’s economic development, military expansion, and the kind of “silent invasion” we now see in the WHO.
Because of the human rights suppression and military crackdown in the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989, China was abandoned by the world.
Exchanges were cut off, and economic sanctions were imposed.
Yet the country that was quickest to extend a helping hand was Japan.
Japan lifted the economic sanctions, and in 1992 even brought about the visit of His Majesty the Emperor, now the Emperor Emeritus, to China.
Did China feel gratitude for this?
Not at all.
Perhaps it concluded that the Japanese were fools and easy to deceive, for it even began anti-Japanese education.
We Japanese must reflect severely on the fact that it was Japan that abetted China’s global invasion.
That being so, inviting President Xi as a state guest this spring is utterly out of the question.
If that were realized, a visit by His Majesty the Emperor to China would also become unavoidable, and it would become a recurrence of the nightmare.
The attitude the Japanese people should take.
Not only that, Japan and the Japanese people would be looked down upon and distrusted even more by the world.
There may be some circumstances surrounding the invitation of President Xi as a state guest, but the most important issue should be the credibility of Japan and the Japanese people.
Over this novel pneumonia, I believe the nature of China as a state — its concealment and its sloppy management — will be severely called into question, and perhaps this may even lead to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party.
A video uploaded by a young man living in Wuhan, prepared to be taken away by the public security authorities, has become a topic of discussion.
According to him, until the day before Wuhan was sealed off, nobody was wearing masks.
That means information about this pneumonia had been concealed.
He also says that Chinese people in their twenties and thirties have not been brainwashed and are not fools.
They are not deceived by the government’s lies.
Young people are dissatisfied with the government and want to change the present situation.
Finally, through this video, he appeals to people all over the world to put the pressure of public opinion on the Chinese government and make it bear responsibility.
Exactly right!
Now is the time for Japan to make up for its past policy failure.
Unlike the time of Tiananmen, anyone can now speak out through social networking services and take part in forming public opinion.
The novel pneumonia is an overwhelmingly unfortunate event, but let us use this opportunity to recognize the reality of China’s information control and international encroachment, and stop its runaway course.