Published on September 22, 2019.
Based on a Sankei Shimbun book review, this chapter introduces Hiroshi Yuasa’s China-Dominated World: A Future Chronology Toward Pax Sinica.
It discusses the Xi Jinping regime’s military expansion, its foreign policy of trapping countries in debt, its ancient view of territory, its return to a tributary order, and the significance of Japan as the only liberal state in East Asia that successfully modernized.

September 22, 2019.
China’s excessively terrible military expansion, and its foreign policy of trying to drown countries everywhere in debt and seize their territory.
Is its view of territory not ancient itself?
Does it not even know the view of sovereign-state territory based on the Treaty of Westphalia!
This is a chapter I published on November 4, 2018, under the title:
However, they were still reserved and used the safe expression “the reorganization of the world order under Chinese hegemony.”
The following is from a review of Hiroshi Yuasa’s China-Dominated World: A Future Chronology Toward Pax Sinica, published by Asuka Shinsha at 1,389 yen plus tax, which appeared in today’s Sankei Shimbun book section under the title “The Courage to Point Out the Ambition for World Conquest,” reviewed by Hiroshi Furuta, professor at the Graduate School of the University of Tsukuba.
The emphases in the text are mine.
Reviewer: Hiroshi Furuta.
To the best of my knowledge, among those who have pointed out “China’s ambition for world conquest” are Kojima Reiitsu in Chinese economics and Murai Tomohide in military history.
However, they were still reserved and used the safe expression “the reorganization of the world order under Chinese hegemony.”
This book takes that one step further, and its main point lies in its firm statement that when Xi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, said in his party congress speech, the 2017 speech at the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, that the Chinese nation would increasingly “stand tall among the nations of the world,” it was a declaration that China would go beyond the framework of regional hegemony and reign over the world.
In fact, I too had been wanting very much to say it.
Today’s China is not something as mild as regional hegemony, but clearly an ambition for world conquest.
However, to say that requires not only courage, but strong persuasiveness.
Anyone would have doubts such as, “World conquest in the twenty-first century?
Surely that is anachronistic.”
In the Sankei Shimbun dated January 24 of this year, Mr. Yuasa still only pointed out China’s premodern character, saying that it was “like nineteenth-century imperialist thinking.”
But he finally gained the courage.
China’s excessively terrible military expansion, and its foreign policy of trying to drown countries everywhere in debt and seize their territory.
Is its view of territory not ancient itself?
Does it not even know the view of sovereign-state territory based on the Treaty of Westphalia!
Anger moved him: does China intend, as suzerain, to place other countries under its investiture system and turn them into tribute states in a Sinocentric order dividing civilization and barbarism?
Yes, what should be pointed out is not only China, but the “ancient character” common also to North Korea, South Korea, and Russia: an ancient character that tried to modernize without passing through feudalism, failed, and then reverted.
Japan must awaken to the reality that it is surrounded by “Oriental despotic states” and is the only “liberal state” in East Asia that succeeded in modernization.
That is why he repeatedly says, “Liberal states must prevent any particular great power from occupying a superior position through violence, and must maintain peace through mutually balanced power.”
And, “A country that remains forever bound by Marx and his fellow-traveling, pro-communist liberal relatives will see its society gradually deteriorate.”