Published on January 29, 2020. This article criticizes the WHO’s avoidance of an emergency declaration over the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus and Director-General Tedros’s visit to China. It discusses China’s influence over international organizations, Taiwan’s exclusion, aid to Africa, Japan’s position within the United Nations, and the anti-Japanese discourse structure involving the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and related groups, arguing that these factors have produced China’s domination of international society.

January 29, 2020
The real reason he visited China at this time was probably that he thought this was the greatest opportunity to place China under an obligation. He could obtain enormous funds from China for himself and for Ethiopia, his country of origin.
Yesterday, I wrote about a friend who was angry at the way the WHO avoided making a judgment, and an article published in today’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun proved that my friend’s anger was exactly on target.
For example, this is the WHO that excluded Taiwan from membership because of China’s coercive pressure.
To begin with, the reason this man named Tedros, who had served as a minister in Ethiopia, was recommended for the post of Director-General of the WHO was probably the result of China’s lobbying activities.
At the very least, it was surely not because Japan, which until just recently had been by far the second-largest contributor to the United Nations after the United States, strongly recommended him.
The real reason he visited China at this time was probably that he thought this was the greatest opportunity to place China under an obligation.
He could obtain enormous funds from China for himself and for Ethiopia, his country of origin.
Of course, as a matter of official form, China might also take the form of temporarily giving some amount of contribution to the WHO.
China, which until yesterday had not contributed anything like the amount Japan had contributed, and which, on the contrary, had until yesterday received enormous ODA from Japan, is now dominating the United Nations.
Meanwhile, far from dominating the United Nations as, so to speak, an overwhelmingly large shareholder, Japan has instead been subjected, at every opportunity, to absurd human rights recommendations and the like.
The Chinese Communist Party, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the victorious nations of the war, has stood as a permanent member of the Security Council under the status of a victorious nation and has always opposed the liberal camp.
While ignoring the enormous ODA it received from Japan, China has continued economic aid to Africa with the ambition of world domination.
Newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun, which are masses of masochistic historical views and anti-Japanese thought, and NHK, so-called citizens’ groups, and so-called human rights lawyers who have gone along with them, have placed Japan in the position of a political prisoner in international society, in accordance with the intentions of Korea and China.
These things have brought about this ugly and malicious state of affairs.
Today, the friend in question was even more indignant, saying that the WHO should, in the first place, be denouncing China’s organ trafficking and similar acts.
Hopes for Avoiding an Emergency Declaration
Chinese President Meets with WHO Director-General
Beijing, by Takahashi Satoshi — On the 28th, Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing with Tedros, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and said of the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, Hubei Province, “I believe in the objective, fair, calm, and rational assessment of the WHO and the international community.”
The remarks are seen as indicating his hope that the WHO will not issue an emergency declaration over the new pneumonia.
See page one.
This was reported by China’s state-run Central Television.
At its emergency meeting on the 23rd, the WHO had only just postponed declaring the new pneumonia “a public health emergency of international concern,” saying that it was “too early.”
Tedros told Xi, “The WHO makes judgments based on science and facts and opposes overreaction and remarks or actions that differ from the facts,” emphasizing his view that the decision on whether or not to issue an emergency declaration should be made carefully.
Xi stated, “The Chinese people are engaged in a severe struggle against the new pneumonia. Protecting the lives, safety, and health of the people is the highest priority.”
He appealed, “Infectious disease is a devil, and we will not allow the devil to hide.”
He also promised, “The Chinese government, with a transparent and responsible attitude, will announce information concerning the infection situation in a timely manner both domestically and internationally.”
He emphasized his intention to contain the new pneumonia while cooperating with the WHO and the international community.
On top of that, he stated, “Under the strong leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, by fully demonstrating the superiority of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we have complete confidence that we will win the battle to block the infectious disease.”
Tedros also met with State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and said, “The WHO and the international community praise the decisive measures taken by the Chinese government.”
With the WHO’s suspension of the emergency declaration in mind, Wang said, “Please believe in the firm determination and will of the Chinese government and people in fighting the infectious disease.”