2016-02-28
The United States announced jointly that it had somehow managed to persuade China and secure the strongest sanctions resolution against North Korea to date, but do they seriously believe that China will truly continue to keep its promises?
Even at the very moment the U.S.–China statement was announced, there were already remarks along the China–North Korea border that trade between China and North Korea would return to normal in May.
The Chinese Communist Party has seen through the behavior of Western countries, whose leaders feel compelled to say something in front of the media in order to win popularity.
It is the Party’s customary method to say whatever is expedient at the moment, thereby placing those leaders under an obligation, while in exchange for its own “plausible lies,” obtaining substantive and concrete commitments—matters that serve its own interests.
The United States under the Obama administration must have been so thoroughly won over by China that it failed even to recognize this.
In this case, China obtained the unexpected result it wanted: the postponement of the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system (THAAD) to U.S. forces stationed in South Korea.
At this point, would it really be an exaggeration to say that North Korea’s nuclear test was, in fact, a joint production by China and North Korea?
Such is the nature of a one-party Communist dictatorship: ruthless and cunning, and exceptionally adept at schemes, stratagems, and political maneuvering.
Yet the Asahi Shimbun and other media organizations, together with the so-called intellectuals who went along with them, had convinced themselves that such people belonged to a nation skilled in diplomacy.
Once because of relations with the Soviet Union, and now from the standpoint of making money from a country with a population of 1.3 billion, we have been forced to witness, time and again, the Obama administration continuing to accommodate the world’s largest state of human-rights oppression—a country of which it would scarcely be an exaggeration to say that there is nothing beyond calling white black and black white.
Hillary Clinton, who was part of that same circle, went so far as to place Japan in the same category as China and South Korea—countries that had continued to pursue weak-currency policies as matters of national policy—and viciously denounced Japan.
I was the first person in the world to make clear that it was the Asahi Shimbun that brought about the Japanese-style prolonged deflation that the world now detests like a venomous serpent.
During this period, Japan’s elites, raised on the Asahi Shimbun, continued to tolerate a strong yen and thereby created deflation, the economic phenomenon that should have been avoided above all else.
Hillary does not even know this historical fact—a very simple fact.
If someone like this is going to become President of the United States, perhaps Trump would be preferable, if only because he would at least be more interesting.