Strategy Insights Ep 103: Nuclear Shadow Looms Again: CCP Issues a Nuclear Threat Against Japan？

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Professor Ming's Strategic Insights. Just a few days ago, I read a piece of news which gave me a big shock. It was an article that appeared on the PLA's website, People's Liberation Army's website, Communist China. It appeared on the website on August the 10th and entitled, let me read it out, these words, standing firm, have laid bare the ulterior motives of Japan's right-wing politicians. Actually, this article attacks and accuses so-called Japan's right-wing politicians and, of course, Prime Minister Takahashi. But let me remind you, all the points that Communist China accuses them of, they themselves hypocritically commit all the same mistakes or crime, whatever you call it, themselves. Well, the issue happened on the 9th of August, when the city Nagasaki of Japan, they held a ceremony commemorating the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombardment of the city. And Prime Minister Takeishi delivered a speech. In the speech, as soon as the one she delivered a few days ago, she was very ambiguous about the so-called three non-nuclear principles of Japan's foreign policy, and she did not clearly indicate that she will hold on to the same principles as in the past, which agitates Communist China very much. The so-called three non-nuclear principles are non-possession, non-production, and non-introduction of nuclear weapons to the country. So just exactly what Takeishi said in her speech, she said this, our country, Japan, is now standing firm on those three non-nuclear principles, because as the only country who has suffered nuclear attack or atomic attack in the world, we're shouldering upon ourselves the mission of materializing a non-nuclear world. And it is this phrase, standing firm, that really agitates Communist China. They accuse Japan or accuse Prime Minister Takeishi of using these words to play war games, meaning that she's ambiguous about Japan's position on those non-nuclear principles. And as they claimed, Takeishi and the so-called right-wing politicians of Japan have been longstanding, have been playing those kind of war games to cover their real intention. They call it the salami strategy. Beijing accuses these right-wing politicians of Japan of playing this salami strategy on issues like revision of Security Act, lift of the right of collective defense and weaponry exports and things like that. And they think that Takeishi is playing the same game on the nuclear issue. And that, again, that's what really makes them mad. I'm not sure that whether the Japanese politicians are actually doing what they're being accused of, but I'm pretty sure that Communist China is committing the same crimes or the same actions that they're accusing the Japanese are doing. For instance, they've been building up their military on a massive scale, an unprecedented scale, and they've been building up their nuclear arsenals, which caused an arms race among the United States and Russia and other countries. And they're doing things in South China Sea, such as building reefs into artificial islands and even militarize them to the teeth. So that's what they've been accusing the Japanese of doing, the so-called salami strategy on these sensitive issues. But they themselves are doing all these things in these areas. So I'm not sure whether they have the right to accuse the Japanese of committing all these crimes or actions. So that's the first accusation that Beijing makes against Japan. And the second thing is they accuse the Japanese of conducting a crime or making a mistake of history falsification or history distortion. They're accusing the Japanese of changing the narratives about the Nanjing massacre in the 1930s during the aggression war against China into the Nanjing incident. And they try to either downplay the seriousness of the issue or they try to whitewash their history or they try to whitewash their crime in the history. We must say that it is definitely unacceptable for the Japanese to change the narrative of their past crime or their past mistake and try to whitewash themselves. But let's remember that communist China has done that almost on a daily basis. They've been whitewashing their own past history for literally, they've been trying to whitewash their own mistakes or crimes almost on a daily basis. For instance, the Great Leap Forward and the resulting Great Famine, which caused the casualty of 45 million Chinese people and the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Massacre in 1989, and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners even up to today, and even to the point of organ harvesting. And all these things, has the Chinese Communist Party ever admitted their own mistakes or their crimes? Have they done that? They've been whitewashing all these atrocities even up to today. So who should we blame? Shall we just blame the Japanese for these, or shall we blame the Chinese Communist Party for all these crimes? Who's the one who's actually conducting the crime of history falsification or history distortion? In one of the paragraphs of the article, the author tries to warn the Japanese and say, if there's no warmongering expansion, there won't be a tragedy of rising mushroom clouds, namely nuclear attacks or atomic attacks. And if there's no militaristic expansion, you won't be facing the consequence of your home turning into ashes or being burned into ashes. All these warnings are very correct, verbally. It is fair to say this is a fair warning. It is quite correct. But the question is, which country is the one that is engaging in an unprecedented and massive military buildup? Communist China. And which country is the one that's embarking on the road of militarism? Communist China. And which country is the one that's engaging in or conducting a global infiltration in all the major countries around the world and launching spy wars or espionage against all the major countries in the world and practicing long-arm jurisdiction? Communist country. And even worse than that, while they're doing all these bad things, they're conducting a cognitive warfare against us. They try to call black white, and they try to invert right and wrong. While they're uttering all these sweet words, they're doing all the bad things with their own hands. The most critical warning comes in the last paragraph. The article says this. The lessons of history are not too far. If the Japanese government insists on playing fire with the nuclear issue, then the heavy hammer of history will eventually fall once again. And Hiroshima and Nagasaki's yesterday may be Japan's tomorrow. So what do you read out of this? This is a blatant, naked nuclear threat against Japan by Communist China. No more, no less. Well, I think that's all I want to share with you today. I hope you like it, and please share it with your friends, and please subscribe to it if you haven't done so. And do remember to click the icon bell. I'll see you next time.