Anthropologist Tadao Umesao warned that China’s true nature is “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.” Under Xi Jinping’s totalitarian rule, this Orwellian surveillance state has become fully realized. China’s desperate outreach to Macron’s failing France, its vicious political attacks on Japan’s Takaichi government, and the exposure of pro-Beijing politicians now reveal the global reach of CCP manipulation and coercion.

George Orwell foresaw the rise of the surveillance state.
Yet it was in the 21st century that such a state was actually completed—in the one-party dictatorship of the Communist Party, ruled by the dictator Xi Jinping.
The essence of China, he concluded after years of fieldwork living across all provinces of China, is “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
This conclusion was announced by the late Tadao Umesao, the foremost folklorist and anthropologist in the political world.

When I happened upon a large-scale retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology while visiting Expo ’70 Commemorative Park for photography, I instantly realized the profound truth of his words.

Such is the situation today.
Since then, it would be no exaggeration to say that there has not been a single day when his conclusions have not been introduced in this column.

From lower-ranking officials to top-level bureaucrats and up to Xi Jinping himself, it is now plainly evident that they have laid bare their true nature and are carrying out astonishingly foolish and despicable attacks on the Takaichi administration.

At present, Xi Jinping is desperately reaching out—like a drowning man clutching at straw—to the declining Macron administration and to France, which will serve as next year’s G7 chair.

Macron, whose approval ratings are at rock bottom, and the faltering French business establishment are clinging to Xi Jinping.
When one looks at the disgraceful conduct of our own Keidanren and the pro-China Japan–China Parliamentary Friendship Association, we cannot speak too harshly of France’s humiliation alone.

What follows is drawn from today’s front page of the Sankei Shimbun and an article in the Nikkei.
The scheming of the nation of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” together with the exposure of those who, with astonishing folly, revealed themselves as its agents while attacking the Takaichi administration—one may say that this single article brings the matter to a decisive close.

Even prior to the December 6 article clarifying that the United States will defend Taiwan at all costs, President Trump signed the “Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act” on December 2.

In the coming general election, the opposition parties and pro-China politicians who have exposed themselves as mere agents of Beijing shall surely be struck down by the iron hammer of the Japanese people—nine tenths of whom possess the world’s highest level of civic virtue and intelligence.

There is one more point I must add for the world.

When China—a country whose true nature is precisely as described above—began advancing the line that “only Ms. Takaichi is the problem; the Japanese people are different,” I became convinced that the true masterminds behind the assassination of Mr. Abe were none other than them.

For, as readers well know, this was precisely the same logic expressed at the time by a Chinese female student working part-time at a souvenir shop in Arashiyama:
“I like all Japanese people except Prime Minister Abe.”
As already noted, I immediately refuted the absurdity of this logic—no matter that she was a typical product of anti-Japanese education, indeed, a virtual Nazi.

To be continued.

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