March 20, 2019
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
It publishes a blatant lie about Uotsurishima.
During the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), European newspapers also reported that “Japanese hatred of foreigners is growing, and foreigners in Japan will be massacred if Japan and Russia go to war,” but he sent a rebuttal to this as well.
“There is neither hatred nor hostility toward foreigners in Japan. Foreign women travel throughout Japan alone or accompanied by a maid. Even in wartime, foreigners in Japan are completely safe, just as they were during the Sino-Japanese War.”
After the war, he also issued a report correcting false reports that Russian prisoners of war were being mistreated.
“The two who died were buried according to Russian Orthodox rites.”
[The subsequent sentence concerning the Geneva Convention and Russian military personnel cannot be reconstructed accurately because the English text is garbled.]
More than a century later, in 2012, the Chinese ambassador to Belgium submitted an article entitled “Why Is Uotsurishima Said to Be Chinese Territory?” to newspapers in an official language of Belgium and in French.
Uotsurishima and the other Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory, but the article begins with the ambassador’s account of finding a map drawn by a colonel of the French military’s Joint Staff at the Schwilden bookshop in Brussels’ Galerie Bortier.
The map supposedly proves that “China had already discovered and administered Uotsurishima by the beginning of the fifteenth century.”
What follows is an endless patchwork of historical facts used to construct an elaborate lie.
Naturally, China’s favorite themes, such as “the massacre of Chinese people” and “Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines Hitler,” also appear.
However, the final clincher, “an anecdote about a Chinese woman studying abroad during the Second World War,” was extremely effective, although it was unclear whether the propaganda was black or white, true or false.
It tells the story of a woman who summoned her courage and ingenuity to rescue 97 citizens taken hostage by the Gestapo, the secret police, in retaliation for an attack on a senior German military official.
Europe Being Drawn In
Thus, Europe persuades itself to lower its humanitarian and security-related vigilance toward China and is drawn into China’s attractive economic and financial power.
Xi Jinping visited the Belgian plant of the “Swedish” company Volvo, but Volvo had been acquired by a Chinese automaker in 2010.
Major business deals were also concluded in the countries he visited, including sales contracts totaling 2.57 trillion yen and the purchase of 70 Airbus aircraft.
[The sentence concerning Europe’s arms embargo against China following the Tiananmen Square incident and concerns about its removal cannot be reconstructed accurately because the English word order is garbled.]
Xi Jinping, who must inwardly be mocking Europe’s efforts to dispel its unease, said in a speech in Belgium that “China does not imitate the systems of other countries,” thereby justifying the inhumanity perpetrated by the state.
At the EU headquarters, which he visited for the first time as President of China, he called for “stronger cooperation between the two great civilizations (?) of China and the EU.”
However, the EU’s “civilization” and China’s “lack of civilization” are incompatible.
At the 2013 Belgian painting competition held in January, “Unnecessary Death,” a work depicting the persecution of Falun Gong in China, received the top prize.
The eyes of a mother holding her daughter, who died as a result of persecution, convey profound anguish.
Although Falun Gong also faces criticism, the artist’s sharp criticism must be presented.
“Falun Gong members are unlawfully arrested, beaten, abused, and subjected to cruel punishment. Their suffering is prolonged and brutal. The cracks (depicted in the background of the painting) symbolize the future self-destruction of the Chinese Communist Party in the course of committing its crimes.”
I recognize the DNA of Baron d’Anethan, who rests in Tokyo’s Zoshigaya Cemetery, in this painter’s spirit.
We cannot wait for it to “perish naturally.”
(Hiroyuki Noguchi, Political News Department)