Based on the fieldwork of the late anthropologist Tadao Umesao, this essay examines China’s true nature as a one-party dictatorship built on deception and repression. It analyzes recent coordinated attacks on Japan’s Takaichi administration by the Chinese Communist Party and pro-China actors, and links them to broader geopolitical manipulation involving France under President Macron.

China, a one-party dictatorship ruled by Xi Jinping, has, unbelievably, completed in the twenty-first century the kind of surveillance state that George Orwell once foretold. The essence of China — a land of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” — was identified through years of fieldwork across all provinces of China by the late Tadao Umesao, the greatest ethnologist and anthropologist in Japan’s political and academic world.

When I happened to encounter a large-scale retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Expo ’70 Commemorative Park while visiting the park to take photographs, I instantly awakened to the truth of his words. This was against the backdrop of the current international situation. Since then, it would be no exaggeration to say that not a single day has passed in this column without reference to his conclusions.

Today, it is an undeniable fact that from lower-level and senior Chinese officials all the way up to Xi Jinping himself, they have laid bare that very essence and are mounting attacks of astonishing stupidity and depravity against the Takaichi administration. Now, Xi Jinping, grasping at straws like a drowning man, is courting a declining France under Emmanuel Macron, which is set to serve as next year’s G7 chair.

With Macron’s approval ratings at rock bottom and the French business community also in decline, both are clinging desperately to Xi Jinping. Seeing the disgraceful behavior of Japan’s own Keidanren and the Japan–China parliamentary friendship league, however, we cannot criticize France’s wretched posture too harshly.

The following is based on today’s front-page report in the Sankei Shimbun and an article in the Nikkei. With just this single report, it is no exaggeration to say that those who have exposed themselves as agents of a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” and who have attacked the Takaichi administration as its pawns, have now met their end.

As for the opposition parties and pro-China lawmakers who have revealed themselves as mere tools, the upright Japanese people — the ninety percent of the nation blessed with the world’s highest level of civic virtue and intelligence — will surely deliver a decisive punishment to them in the coming general election.

There is one more point that I must add for the world. When China, whose true nature is exactly as described above, began to claim that “only Ms. Takaichi is the problem, not the Japanese people,” I became convinced at that moment that the true mastermind behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe was China itself.

This is because, as readers will recall, those words were identical to what a Chinese female student working part-time at a souvenir shop in Arashiyama once said at the time: “I like all Japanese people except Prime Minister Abe.” As I have already described, I immediately rebuked the sheer absurdity of that logic, even though the speaker was a typical product of anti-Japanese indoctrination — no, a virtual Nazi.

To be continued.