This article republishes a chapter originally posted on February 1, 2020, examining the WHO’s response to the new coronavirus, Director-General Tedros’s pro-China stance, the delay in declaring an emergency, the special relationship between Ethiopia and China, and why the Japanese government must not rely on the WHO but instead make its own crisis-management decisions.

March 25, 2020
He is unfit to serve as the command center for dealing with a “public health emergency,” and I would like to call for his dismissal.
It cannot be the job of the WHO Director-General to speak on behalf of China’s intentions.
Why does he support China to such an extent?
I am republishing the chapter I posted on February 1, 2020, under the title “That is why I was the first in the world to point out the absurdity of the WHO and the suspicious nature of Director-General Tedros.”
Today’s Sankei Shimbun editorial proved that the most decent newspaper today is the Sankei Shimbun.
At the same time, readers must also have realized that it is no exaggeration at all to say that this blog is the best in the world.
In July 2010, through circumstances known to my readers, I suddenly and unwillingly appeared in the world of the internet.
At the time of the disastrous Democratic Party administration, when no one was suspicious of the strong yen, I appeared by declaring that the yen should be set at 110 yen to the dollar, because that was the figure accurately verified by the most accurate institution.
As I also clearly stated on the obi of the book I published on December 1, 2011.
Regarding the foolishness of sitting by while the stock market was dominated by foreign capital, I also emphasized that Japan’s economic power, which must lead the world alongside the United States, and personal assets that, in substance, may be called the largest in the world, must be directed toward investment in the shares of the corporate groups Japan boasts to the world.
I take pride in the fact that the Bank of Japan’s ETF purchases, which are now supporting the Japanese market, are the result of actions taken by the people concerned after they realized that my argument had hit the mark, but readers of keen insight had already noticed it long ago.
＊Even now, there is no end to so-called market participants who say that these ETF purchases distort the market.
This is because they too are people who grew up reading and studying the Asahi Shimbun, and because they are the economic-field version of people who make a living while mistakenly believing that attacking the government is justice.
If they say that the Bank of Japan’s ETF purchases distort the market, they should say the same thing about activist shareholders represented by Elliott and others.
That is because, the moment Elliott became a major shareholder of SoftBank, it demanded that SoftBank sell assets and allocate 20 billion dollars, or 2 trillion yen, to share buybacks.
Yesterday or the day before yesterday, SoftBank announced exactly that: it would conduct a 2 trillion yen share buyback, the largest in the history of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
It is an amount comparable to the national budget of a small country.
Yet they never say that this distorts the market.
The carelessness of the kind of people called commentators is on the same level as two or three baseball commentators who, with the attitude of authorities in that field, said about pitcher Roki Sasaki that he was a crowd-drawing panda like Matsuzaka and would not be useful in the first team.＊
Soon after appearing, I realized the ignorance of the world.
As a result, as readers know, I have continued to point out almost every day that the world is ruled by “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
That is why I was the first in the world to point out the absurdity of the WHO and the suspicious nature of Director-General Tedros.
In other words, it is because I had continued to mention that everything is China.
At present, I watch TV Tokyo’s WBS every day because I think it is the only television news program that is still relatively decent.
Those who watch it thinking the same way should know that, regarding the WHO matter, a regular Nikkei Shimbun editorial commentator realized that my argument hit the mark and pointed out the truth about Tedros, that is, his suspicious relationship with China.
As readers also know, this blog was the first in the world to mention the suspicious nature of the Eastern European woman who, like him, served as the head of a United Nations agency.
The following is today’s Sankei Shimbun editorial.
[Editorial]
Insufficient emergency declaration — dismiss the WHO Director-General
■The government must not hesitate to make its own judgments
Tedros, Director-General of the World Health Organization, the WHO, declared a “public health emergency of international concern” over the spread of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus.
This was a judgment that came too late.
At its emergency committee meeting on January 23, the WHO postponed the declaration, saying it was “too early.”
Immediately after this, the situation worsened at an accelerating pace.
Moreover, Tedros stated, “There is no reason to restrict travel or trade,” and expressed that he would withhold recommendations for travel restrictions.
This contradicts his own statement that his greatest concern was “the virus spreading to countries without well-developed health systems.”
He is not looking at reality.
If left to the WHO, there can be no expectation of containing the infection.
≪Is he a spokesman for the Xi Jinping administration?≫
Tedros has continued making pro-China remarks and actions up to now.
There are also reports in a French newspaper that “there was Chinese pressure” behind the initial postponement of the declaration.
Tedros is a former health minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia, which receives massive infrastructure investment from China.
He is unfit to serve as the command center for facing the country where the infection occurred and dealing with a “public health emergency,” and I would like to call for his dismissal.
The number of infected people worldwide has surpassed the more than 8,000 infected during the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS.
Human-to-human infection has been confirmed not only inside China, but also in Japan and other countries.
The majority of infected people spreading around the world are travelers from China, including Wuhan.
Infections have also been confirmed among Japanese and foreign nationals who returned from the sealed-off city of Wuhan.
Many related countries are continuing negotiations with the Chinese government to dispatch charter aircraft in order to urgently bring home their own citizens remaining there.
Amid this situation, on the 28th, Xi Jinping told Tedros, who was visiting Beijing, “I believe in the objective, fair, calm, and rational assessment of the WHO and the international community.”
This was a request for the WHO to make a cautious judgment.
Tedros responded, “The WHO makes judgments based on science and facts,” and praised China, saying, “I admire the Chinese government for showing unwavering political determination and taking rapid and effective measures.”
However, although infection by the new coronavirus was confirmed in Wuhan in December of last year, a gag order was imposed.
This is a well-known fact even inside China.
Zhou Xianwang, mayor of Wuhan, admitted that information disclosure was delayed and explained, “The local government did not have the authority to disclose it.”
It is clear that control under the Xi administration brought about the delay in the initial response.
Tedros also told Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister, regarding the movements of various countries seeking to rescue their own citizens, that “there is no need for overreaction.”
It cannot be the job of the WHO Director-General to speak on behalf of China’s intentions.
Why does he support China to such an extent?
There is a “special relationship” between Tedros’s country of origin, Ethiopia, and China.
Ethiopia, which receives infrastructure investment from China in areas such as railways and electricity supply, is regarded as a model country for the huge economic-zone concept known as the “Belt and Road,” while at the same time suffering from enormous debt.
Tedros served as foreign minister from 2012 to 2016, deepened relations with China, and then succeeded his predecessor Chan, who was from Hong Kong, as WHO Director-General.
The neutrality that is most important for the head of an international organization that must deal strictly with a public-health crisis had been doubted from the beginning.
In its daily report dated the 26th, the WHO corrected its description of the global risk of the new coronavirus from “moderate risk” to “high risk,” saying that the previous notation had been an error.
Judgment of danger is the foundation of epidemic prevention, and this cannot be dismissed as a “clerical error.”
One cannot help suspecting that deference existed here too.
≪Crisis management through Japan-U.S. cooperation≫
Since the WHO cannot be trusted, the Japanese government should not rely on its judgment.
In response to the WHO’s emergency declaration, the government moved up enforcement of the cabinet order designating the disease as a “designated infectious disease” from the 7th to the 1st.
It should have implemented it swiftly based on its own judgment, without waiting for the declaration.
Even though the WHO withheld travel-restriction recommendations, the United States has already raised its travel advisory for all of China to the highest level, “do not travel.”
What is being tested is crisis management of extreme urgency.
The government is required to work closely with the United States, which is skilled in this, to protect the people and contain the infection.