The WHO’s response to the novel coronavirus revealed that China’s ambition to Sinicize the world is steadily advancing. Through debt traps, the Belt and Road Initiative, military bases in Djibouti, and influence within the UN, China is attempting to “own” the international community.

2020-03-08
The fact that China’s ambition, the “Sinicization of the world,” is steadily taking effect became clear from the response of the World Health Organization, the WHO, to the novel coronavirus.
All those who took 920 yen times two to their nearest bookstore and bought the monthly magazines WiLL and Hanada, released on February 26, must have keenly realized the correctness of my judgment that they are books every Japanese citizen must read.
The following is from an essay by Yoshiko Sakurai, published under the title, The True Nature of the “Grotesque Great Power” Witnessed by Humanity.
The Sinicization of the world
On February 6, U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a speech on the threat from China at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, a leading think tank in Washington.
He is so well versed in China that his dream was once to work at the CIA as a specialist on Chinese affairs.
When he was studying at university, a friend who was also studying China said this to him.
“Russia wants to conquer the world. We must properly oppose it. China, on the other hand, wants to ‘own’ the world.”
Conquest uses military force, but “ownership,” that is, Sinicization, uses money and intimidation.
Military force can be countered with military force, but coping with schemes and stratagems is not so simple.
The fact that China’s ambition, the “Sinicization of the world,” is steadily taking effect became clear from the response of the World Health Organization, the WHO, to the novel coronavirus.
Although the WHO held an emergency meeting on January 23, it postponed the declaration of an emergency, saying it was “too early.”
At that time, considerable pressure was reportedly being applied by China.
On January 28, Director-General Tedros met Xi Jinping in Beijing and praised China’s response, saying, “I admire the Chinese government’s unwavering political determination and the swift and effective measures it has taken.”
Two days later, on the 30th, he finally issued the emergency declaration, but at the press conference, Tedros again praised China in words that sounded almost absurdly flattering.
“A new disease is leading to an unprecedented large-scale outbreak. But China’s response is also unprecedentedly wonderful.”
“We must thank China for the small number of infections outside China.”
The debt trap set by China
Why does the WHO Director-General make such pro-China remarks, contrary to the actual situation?
It is not unrelated to the fact that Tedros comes from Ethiopia.
Ethiopia, as a model country for the vast economic-zone concept known as the Belt and Road Initiative, has received infrastructure investment from China in railways, power supply, and other areas, while also suffering under huge debts.
With his homeland taken hostage, he has no choice but to listen to China.
The WHO has been “owned” by China.
The Sinicization of Djibouti, which borders Ethiopia, is also serious.
Djibouti is a strategic key point overlooking the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, and it hosts military bases of the United States, France, and Italy, as well as a small base for Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.
There is also a Chinese military base there, but it is entirely different in character from those of other countries.
The bases of other countries are located around Djibouti International Airport, but China alone built a marine corps base near the coast, some distance away.
According to Masahisa Sato, who inspected the site, the Chinese military base was vast and structurally exactly like a “fortress.”
That base is adjacent to a port built with Chinese funds, and in addition to Chinese naval warships, merchant vessels also enter and leave it.
Furthermore, a railway has been laid to this port, and it extends all the way to neighboring Ethiopia.
The “Belt and Road Initiative” and “military strategy” are one and the same.
Even more astonishing is the free trade zone and logistics center, the largest in Africa, that China built in Djibouti.
The construction cost was 3.5 billion dollars, approximately 385 billion yen.
How grave a debt this is for Djibouti is obvious when one sees that Djibouti’s GDP is about 2 billion dollars, approximately 220 billion yen.
This is the debt trap set by China.
Not only states, but also the United Nations is being Sinicized.
For roughly half a century, China has been sending its people into the United Nations.
It has placed Chinese nationals in every committee and obtained chairmanship posts.
As of last August, four Chinese nationals were serving as heads of UN specialized agencies, and China has been strengthening its influence within the UN.
It was the Asahi Shimbun, together with the so-called cultural figures, the opposition parties, and NHK that have continued to report on such a United Nations as though it were the world’s only and correct decision-making body, thereby implanting in the Japanese people a mistaken faith in the UN.
This essay continues.