As China tightens control over domestic NGOs, Japan’s opposition parties, the JFBA, and major media remain silent. This text questions that silence in light of propaganda strategy and influence operations.

May 1, 2016
This is a continuation of the previous chapter.
There is a commentator who says that newspaper and television news should be read upside down.
When the Chinese government suddenly announced that it would tighten control over NGOs within China, claiming that they bring in Western ideas, I read this news as the reverse side of the fact that the Chinese government has long been providing funding to NGOs and NPOs within Japan.
Moreover, China is a one-party dictatorship under the Communist Party, where propaganda strategy can be said to be everything. Its strategy toward Japan—aimed at dividing the Japanese people, weakening Japan’s national power, and damaging Japan’s international credibility—needs no further argument.
The same is unquestionably true of South Korea, which for seventy years since the war has made anti-Japanese propaganda a national policy and continued anti-Japanese education.
In addition, Japan is a country that has neither a CIA nor an FBI, whereas they possess both.
Only those without the capacity for thought would believe that the CIA of countries that make anti-Japanese propaganda a national policy is not active in Japan. It is inconceivable that their intelligence agencies would be doing nothing here.
On the contrary, it would be entirely natural for them, as organizations, to be operating day and night.
I have asked who paid the costs to invite a Mozambican farmer to Japan, or to bring an elderly Norwegian man on a lecture tour from Okinawa to the mainland.
Likewise, who paid the frequent expenses for traveling to Switzerland to engage in repeated “whistleblowing” to organizations such as the UN (UNESCO) human rights committees?
This is a problem that even an elementary school student could solve.
Because China has been doing exactly these things to other countries—especially Japan—it has now begun restricting NGO activities at home.
China, the world’s largest suppressor of human rights, is now further strengthening that pressure.
Why, in response to this, do Japan’s opposition parties, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and the Asahi Shimbun not raise even a voice of protest, let alone criticism?