CHAPTER 4: CANCER’S INESCAPABLE DESTINY: DESTRUCTION

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XI JINPING MAKES ENEMIES IN INNER CIRCLE

Cancer cells destroy protective baseCancer cells are destined to die. China cancer is no exception. This is a cold, hard fact. Cancer
cells are programmed to destroy everything in their paths, even the body that protects them.
When the parent body dies, so do the cancer cells, which cannot survive on their own. It is
possible to cultivate cancer cells in the laboratory as experimental single-cell cultures, but if theculture medium in which they are grown is not changed every few days, the cancer cells expire.
Although cancer cells cannot survive on their own strength, they throw their weight around, likegangsters.
We must give Xi Jinping credit for exploiting the special properties of cancer cells to the fullest.
Until Xi grasped the reins of government, not one of the world’s nations realized that China is acancer. But when Xi Jinping took office, his behavior convinced us of that fact. We must
recognize his contribution to the annals of history.
Like a hooligan challenging a martial-arts masterIn 2013, a year after his ascension to the PRC throne, he Xi Jinping commissioned Silent Contest,
a propaganda film, from the PLA and streamed it on the internet. Its message was a not-verythinly-disguised challenge directed at the US. The film emphasizes China’s infiltration into every
aspect of American society, including cultural and economic activities. It is a blatant attempt toarouse nationalism and anti-American sentiment. Nevertheless, there was no public reaction to
Xi’s challenge from the Obama administration.
Perhaps because he had elicited no response from his target, in early 2018 Xi produced anotherfilm, Amazing China!, which was shown at movie theaters all over the PRC. It took a great dealof intestinal fortitude, but somehow managed to sit through it. The film’s strikingly unsubtle
message from beginning to end was: “I am awe-inspiring. Tremble before me!” Anyone of soundmind knows that you cannot force someone to feel a particular emotion, but Xi Jinping is not ofsound mind. For that reason he bullies the Taiwanese with, “Love China, fear China!” Amazing
China! is simply a film that serves as PR for Xi Jinping, proclaiming to the world how arrogant
he is.
With challenge after defiant challenge, Xi acts like an overconfident hooligan who is daring amartial-arts master to attack him. But one blow from the master reduces the hooligan to asniveling little mouse. This is how the US-China trade war unfolded. Chastened by the master’s
punch, Xi Jinping ordered theaters to stop showing Amazing China! He is, after all, a very simple
soul. But the film was, in one sense, a huge success: It awakened the Americans, at long last, toChina cancer.

1Every Chinese government bureaucrat is corrupt
When Xi Jinping’s sway over China began in 2012, he launched an extensive anti-corruption
campaign, but not because he is a man of spotless integrity. Remember that in China you have nohope of advancement unless you pay bribes. High-ranking bureaucrats receive bribes from theirunderlings, and return the favor by “taking care” of said underlings. Once the bribe is received,
the bureaucrat passes a portion of it on to someone more powerful than he is. If no bribe isforthcoming, not only does the underling not get taken care of, he may also incur the wrath of his
superior and end up in jail. And if a bureaucrat fails to receive a bribe from his inferior, he has
nothing with which to bribe his superior. For that reason, Chinese civil servants must receive
bribes to protect themselves and to pass on to their superiors. This is a pathetic tradition. Since
Chinese social structure is built on bribes, there is not one civil servant who is clean — not one.
When a civil servant’s bribes are exposed, the heads of links in his bribery chain begin to fall,
one after the other. Since they are all guilty, if Xi tried hard, he could throw every civil servant in
jail, including himself. But since he does not, we can conclude that his anti-corruption campaign
is just one means of purging his political enemies.
Tens of millions of enemies
The anti-corruption campaign exposed as many as 1.3 million bureaucrats, and also their families,
since even today the guilt-by-association rule is still very much alive. There are two types ofpunishment: (1) punishment stipulated by law and (2) punishment meted out by the CCP.
Furthermore, since the Party sits at the top of the nation, its punishments are more severe thanthose imposed by laws. That means that they affect the careers of every family member, and thequality of education their children receive. In some cases more distant relatives and even friends
may also be punished.
In ancient China there was a punishment called zhu jiu zu,1 which means “killing the entire clan.”
Even today, in the 21st century, this archaic practice persists. Xi’s anti-corruption campaign has
affected at least 10 million Chinese, if we count family members and other relatives who became
victims of persecution. Those people were once part of the system. But once Xi Jinping cameinto power, he made enemies of 10 million members of that system.
When someone conducts a mammoth purge like that one, there are lingering, serious aftereffects.
Many bureaucrats who have yet to be purged are still part of the system. When you add up thosepeople, their families and friends, you arrive at a total of tens of millions of Chinese who are now
Xi’s opponents. They are waiting impatiently for their opportunity for revenge.
The PLA: once Xi’s protectors, now his enemies
Xi Jinping has made enemies not only of members of his party and his government, but also of
the military. The CCP government was created at gunpoint, so Xi should be taking good care of
the military. Instead, he has placed priority on establishing his personal authority. Xi once held a
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military post, but he can’t claim a military career because his was a civilian position (secretary to
the National Defense minister). Perhaps that gave him an inferiority complex, but in 2013, notlong after he had become president, he began making major reforms to the military. One of them
was reducing the number of military regions from seven to five.
It was Deng Xiaoping’s idea to have seven military regions; he wished to foster a bond between
the military and civilians in each region (Shenyang, Beijing, Lanzhou, Jinan, Nanjing,
Guangzhou, and Chengdu). The concept sounds impressive, but viewed from the opposite side, it
ended up creating a collusive relationship between the two. Hotels, restaurants, and karaoke bars,
all of which conducted business openly, cropped up in every one of the regions on land ownedby the military. Every one of these establishments, which did a booming business, also provided
the services of prostitutes, so popular with the Chinese. Since the brothels were operated by the
military, the police wouldn’t be so foolish as to raid them. Their loyal customers could patronize
them without a care in the world.
But when the seven military regions were reduced to five, the military was forced to give up
these lucrative businesses and the privileges that came with them. Furthermore, since the very
profitable brothels were usurped by Xi Jinping’s henchmen, the former operators harbored deep
grudges. The great reform, shifting from seven to five military regions, both chipped away thepower held by Xi’s opponents and robbed them of their interests. Like the anti-corruption
campaign, this move on Xi’s part was part of a power struggle. The military, bereft of its power
and profits, was bound to be resentful. Normally, the head of the CCP, a leader who came to
power backed by the military, would not want to alienate his backers, but that is exactly what Xi
did. When we look at subsequent events, like the purges of top-ranking military officials likeFang Fenghui, former PLA Chief of Joint Staff, we know that there have always been
undercurrents of dissatisfaction within the military. We won’t know whether Xi’s grand militaryreform paid off until we see how they behave in a war situation, but we can be certain that theforces opposing Xi Jinping have grown stronger.
Second-generation reds divide up their country
What really matters to the powerful in China, more than their nation, is political control (literally,landscape), over the territory they have seized by dint of that power. China is the asset of thepowerful, and they and their offspring monopolize it so that their interests cannot be acquired byoutsiders. Even now, in the 21st century, this aspect of imperial ideology is very much alive. The
descendants of those who became powerful during the Chinese communist revolution era arecalled “second-generation reds.” Xi Jinping is one of them. When second-generation reds enter
politics, their success is guaranteed, regardless of their capability. Second-generation reds whoenter the business world become wealthy, again regardless of their capability. Some secondgeneration reds are making money from exclusive patent rights, which are awarded only to theprivileged class. Others are racking up successes as shareholders or officers of already successful
enterprises like Alibaba. I don’t think I need explain why they are (and must be) welcomed so
warmly by private corporations.

3How second-generation reds suffer during the trade war
But since the US-China trade war began, the second-generation reds have seen their profits
plummet. Most of them are in favor of the economic liberalization demanded by the US,
including the protection of intellectual property and the opening of financial markets. The reason
for taking that position is that is if they can succeed in introducing cutting-edge American
technology in any kind of meaningful way, the competitiveness of the high-tech industry, which
the second-generation reds have a stranglehold on, will definitely soar. If the US gains access toChina’s financial markets, they will be the ones who benefit from having strong ties to both thegovernment and Wall Street, and they can count on raking in more profits than ever before.
Therefore, most of them are more interested in arriving at a compromise with the US than insaving face. It is true that there would be advantages for China, but for the incorrigibly obstinate
Xi Jinping, this would be a defeat that he could not accept.
The US-China trade war has caused a shift in the supply chain to other countries, and due tosanctions, production is stagnating because the Chinese can no longer import parts. The blow tocorporations has resulted in a reduction in the second-generation reds’ profits. Furthermore, it ispossible that further sanctions imposed by the US may affect their overseas assets. What they
really want is a compromise from Xi that will end the trade war, and they want it soon. The more
Xi resists, the more their hostility toward him will escalate.
CCP regime will end within five years
Cai Xia is a second-generation red. The former Central Party School professor, who has educatedelite members of the CCP, has likened Xi Jinping to a Mafia boss. On August 18, 2020 in aninterview with Voice of America, she said, “I don’t think I’m alone ... I think 60% to 70% ofparty members hold the same opinion as I do, but they dare not speak out in fear of
retaliation.”2 She predicted that the second-generation reds would bring an end to the CCP
regime within five years.
Xi Jinping, abandoned by the bureaucrats, the military, and the second-generation reds, continues
to acquire enemies. His single-minded efforts have no doubt made a strong impression on manyof the world’s inhabitants. Hats off to Xi Jinping!
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US-CHINA TRADE: HONESTY VS. DECEIT

Trump’s victory prompts rejoicing in China
Reports have it that when Trump won the presidential election in November 2016, there wascheering in Zhongnanhai, where the CCP central headquarters are situated. This was soon
confirmed by the tone of CCP reports. Renmin University of China Professor Jin Canrong, apuppet-scholar of the Chinese government, gleefully announced to the media that “[Trump] willcertainly bring his business sensibilities into office,” and that “China is used to dealing with2

https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/expelled-chinese-communist-party-insider-detailsinternal-tensions.

4businesspeople.”3 From China’s point of view, Trump, with the political savvy of a kindergartner
and absolutely no political track record, would be much easier to handle than the shrewd Hillary
Clinton. There is some truth in what he said. Xi Jinping’s administration, no doubt, was certainthat Trump, with his lust for money and beautiful women, would be easy to catch in a money
trap or honeytrap, which the Chinese are supreme professionals at setting.
Chinese zero in on the “businessman president”
We know that the Chinese underestimated President Trump in another way. Nine times out of 10
when they refer to him, they emphasize the fact that he’s a businessman. Ingrained in the
Chinese consciousness is the warriors-farmers-artisans-merchants class hierarchy. The warriors
are intelligent men who have prepared for and passed the demanding civil-service examinations
and become scholar-officials. They are the highest-ranking officials and command respect.
Merchants have little knowledge and are considered lowly individuals with one skill: making
money. The same sort of philosophy exists in Japan, but does not carry nearly as much weight as
it does in China. The character 士 means samurai in Japanese, and refers to a man who is imbued
with the warrior spirit and, again, commands respect. In China, however, the character means“scholar-official,” and denotes a civil servant who is respected for wisdom, authority, and wealth.
Shidafu (士大夫) describes men who have risen to power by mastering the Nine ChineseClassics and passing the civil-service examinations. Without exception, they use that power toaccumulate wealth and enjoy a luxurious life. These men emit a putrid odor. They have noresemblance whatsoever to the proverbial Japanese samurai who is so proud he uses a toothpickeven though he hasn’t eaten. If the shidafu manage to get through their careers without a misstep,
they can enjoy a life of luxury. But they are surely destined for hell.
Most people must content themselves with a life during which they do not attain wisdom, power,
or wealth. But the Chinese are so greedy that they’re not considered successful unless theyacquire all three. Rather than commanding respect, the shidafu are envied and resented.
The power bosses at Zhongnanhai have risen to the top of the shidafu ranks. They call Trump the“businessman president” because they view him as an inferior. They are fixated on the word
businessman because they look down on this merchant who has neither knowledge nor education,and thinks only about money. It is this mentality that polarizes the Chinese and American
cultures. It is also the main cause of the US-China trade war. But the Chinese authorities, whoboast about their wisdom and education, do not seem to understand this fact.
Manual labor: prized by Americans and scorned by Chinese
In the US the pursuit of wealth is a good thing. Those who acquire wealth within one generation
are praised for having realized the American dream. When they gain power, Americans arerespected if they earn money by the sweat of their brows, as opposed to simply filling their own
pockets. The Chinese are completely opposite. There is a Chinese saying that goes, “Those whowork with their minds govern others; those who work with the strength of their bodies are3

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5governed by others.”4 The nation where confidence men are admired for using their wits to steal
from laborers – that is China.
Trump’s policy to revive manufacturing
American views about labor are the opposite of those embraced by China. Unlike the Chinese,
who disparage manual labor, Americans prize it. Unfortunately, globalization has prompted
American companies to shut down their manufacturing operations in the US and decamp to
China. The result is that many Americans have lost their jobs, their income and, in some cases,
their self-respect.
In the American Midwest most people work hard to feed their families, with whom they go tochurch on Sundays. They are staunch Trump supporters because they cherish traditional
American values. They don’t care about trade negotiations where trickery is at work; all thatmatters to them is their jobs’ coming back to the US. Without work, they cannot live with dignity.
The US is a great country because it was built on a foundation of honesty and simplicity. But thisimportant foundation has been seriously eroded by a misguided China policy that has persisted
for 40 years. To make America great again, the only hope is to revive the manufacturing sector.
This belief is at the heart of Trump’s policies.
“Honesty is the best policy” vs. “All businessmen are evil”
In the US keeping promises is considered the minimum ethical requirement for smooth business
operations. To be successful in the US, you must be honest, hence the saying “honesty is the bestpolicy.” Because he has accumulated untold wealth, Trump is undisputedly a successful
American businessman. And because he is a businessman president, he makes a point of keeping
his promises, unlike the traditional swindler-politicians.
In contrast, we have the Chinese saying, “All businessmen are evil.” It means that every Chinese
businessman is a swindler, and all Chinese believe this. If the saying served as a warning against
dishonest merchants, that would be a saving grace, but in China deception is the minimum skill
required of a merchant. Therefore, when the Chinese enter the business world, they must make aconcerted effort to hone their deceptive prowess. First-class Chinese businessmen who are notdependent on special privileges or their parents’ assets are, without exception, first-rate swindlers.
Anyone who thinks that this description applies to the Chinese business world and that world
only is in for a big surprise. To thrive in that environment, you need even greater skills. If you’redefeated in the trickery war, you lose only your assets. But if you’re defeated in the trickery war
in the political world, you lose not only status and power, but even your life in some cases. For
that reason, all businessmen are hell-bent on refining their swindling skills. You can bet that thedenizens of Zhongnanhai are first-class swindlers who have fought and emerged victorious in thepolitical world.

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Trumps’ mantra: jobs, jobs, jobs
At the heart of the trade war between the US and China is the difference between the value
systems operative in the two nations. For that reason, the war will not be limited to trade andtrade alone.
One of Trump’s election promises was to “make America great again.” This promise is a very
abstract one; if Trump were a traditional politician, he would discard it or weasel his way out of
it. Strangely enough, voters (especially Japanese voters) tend to be forgiving when a politician
breaks an election promise. But the businessman president seems to consider that promise evenmore binding than a business contract.
And it is clear how he intends to make America great again: revive the US economy. The reason
he keeps reciting his “jobs, jobs, jobs” mantra is that his main objective is economic recovery. If
Americans cannot get decent jobs, they can’t lead decent lives, and America will never be great.
Thus it is necessary to create the needed employment opportunities, and to restore the industries
that were hollowed out when US corporations shifted their manufacturing operations to China.
Trump believes that this shift was the cause of the trade imbalance.
Evil economists
Most of the world’s economists (Japanese economists included) maintain that the tradeimbalance between the US and China benefits both nations and doesn’t need to be corrected.
They maintain that the trade deficit is not a bad thing, and that the argument that it erodes profits
is overly simplistic. They sneer at Trump’s ideas about trade.
But Trump has neither the time nor the patience to care much about the economists opinions. To
him the trade deficit has resulted in the deterioration of the American manufacturing sector, andthe more manufacturing the US loses, the more the trade deficit increases. It’s as simple as that.
Since he is a business owner, Trump knows that corporations want to shift their operations toplaces where labor and land are cheap, and taxes are low. Companies thrive when they have theirproducts manufactured in low-cost China, and sell them in the huge American market.
Unfortunately, American workers can’t find jobs and are left without means. The result is thatonce flourishing towns have been devastated, jobless young people have turned to crime anddrugs, and families are disintegrating.
Precisely because he is a businessman, President Trump is determined to solve this complex
political problem using business methods. If corporations are going offshore because taxes arehigh in the US, he would reduce their taxes so that they could be profitable and remain in the US.
If companies shifted their manufacturing operations to China because labor is cheaper there, hewould make it less advantageous to do so by raising tariffs on Chinese-made products coming
into the US, thus increasing costs. And if China were going to cut costs drastically by stealing
American intellectual property and dumping high-tech goods in the US, the US would squeeze
Chinese companies out of the US market. These policies would improve the lives of Americans
by stimulating the recovery of the American manufacturing sector and creating employment.
Consideration for China and Wall Street was reflected in every peevish economic report issued
by economists who opposed Trump policies. A careful examination of those reports will reveal

7the devil in the details. In other words, the great majority of these people are masquerading as
scholars and specialists, but they have been bought by China. They accept bribes disguised as
research expenses, commissions, lecture honoraria, and fees for articles, and have been reduced
to acting as spokespeople for China. They haven’t a trace of morality or conscience, though they
are reaping huge profits. Are they superior to people who do physical labor?
Trump won’t tolerate predatory Chinese tactics
In President Trump’s mind there is an additional reason for the US-China trade deficit. The
Trump administration is rigorously pursuing unfair Chinese tactics that are destroying Americanindustry: intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, economic espionage, and hacking.
China’s predatory actions have caused Americans to lose their jobs, and transformed theAmerican Midwest into what is now called the Rust Belt. Towns that once flourished because ofindustry have become slums teeming with former workers who are now idle. In this environmenta decent life is no longer possible, and those who inhabit it have lost everything, even their selfrespect.
This situation has motivated President Trump to make demands of China. He is not only asking
the Chinese to correct the trade imbalance, but to conduct business fairly and honestly. The
world’s economists and commentators are not too stupid to understand this elementary logic. But
they are evil. They are laughing at Trump’s attempts with regard to the trade imbalance. Insteadof worrying about the fate of the US, they are taking China’s side. Having been thoroughly
poisoned by China cancer, they are enthusiastic proponents of globalization. I cannot
overemphasize that what the Trump administration is demanding is fairness and honesty. The
goal is to put an end to unfair competition. In the past American politicians of all sorts, great andinsignificant, have been China’s accomplices, receiving rewards from China in the guise ofpolitical donations from Chinese residing in the US.
Zhu Rongji: “Keep my promises? That depends”
If we take a look back, we will see that it was the US that made China so strong. China owes the
US everything. In 2000 the US government and Congress, over the protests of labor unions, gave
China permanent most-favored nation status; in 2001 it approved China’s admission to the WTO(World Trade Organization).
The US was intent on including China, which has the world’s largest population, in order toadvance the cause of globalization. That objective was perfectly matched with China’s desire towield more influence on the world. To be admitted to the WTO, China promised to protect
intellectual property and open its service markets (finance, etc.). First Vice Premier Zhu Rongji,
the chief negotiator at the time, made things clear by saying at an internal meeting that he would
make promises, but whether or not he kept them was up to him.
This is a typical Chinese tactic. Zhu had no intention of keeping that promise. And as we sawlater on, American workers became the victims of that policy, and the chief beneficiaries ofglobalization were China and a handful of American establishment figures. Washington’s selfserving politicians stole profits from American workers and handed them over to China. If it
hadn’t been for the Trump administration, this system would still be with us.

8Chinese promises not worth a red cent
China formally joined the WTO on January 1, 2002. The Chinese were given a grace period of
15 years to protect intellectual property and open their markets. In other words, they had to fulfill
the promise they made in 2017, the very year the Trump administration took office. Frombusinessman Trump’s viewpoint, it was perfectly reasonable to expect China to honor its
promise, and doing so would not bring about a trade war — an overreaction. President Trumpprobably thought that reminding the Chinese of that 15-year-old promise would result in positive
action on their part. In any case, in April 2017 at the US-China summit conference held in
Florida, Trump and Xi Jinping reached an agreement called the 100-day plan, during which tradetalks would be held with an eye to reducing the trade imbalance. But Chinese promises aren’t
worth a red cent. For instance, Xi Jinping made a promise to President Obama at the WhiteHouse that China would not construct military installations in the South China Sea. But nosooner were the words out of Xi’s mouth than China built an artificial island there, on which it
constructed a runway for military aircraft, and equipped it with air-defense missiles. If that isn’t
a military installation, what is? But since promises mean nothing to Xi Jinping, on August 1,
2017 (the 100-day plan had ended in July), there was no sign that he was about to keep his word.
President Trump, who had lost patience with the dishonest Chinese, ordered an investigation into
applying Super 301 (Section 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974, designed to combat unfair trade)to China. That order set off the US-China trade war.
Chinese retaliation infuriates Trump
In 2018 Trump launched the trade war in earnest. Between January and March of 2018, the US
raised tariffs on Chinese solar panels, washing machines, iron and steel, and aluminum products.
But they weren’t raised only for Chinese products, so strictly speaking, that was not part of the
US-China trade war. China wasn’t the obvious target until June 16, 2018 when the US
announced that tariffs on approximately $50 billion in Chinese goods would be increased. China
immediately retaliated by raising import tariffs on an equivalent amount of US goods. That
action infuriated President Trump, who found it unbelievable. The sanctions were perfectly fairbecause the Chinese had broken their promise. It was outrageous for them to retaliate, andPresident Trump couldn’t possibly have tolerated such behavior. According to the American wayof thinking, when those who have broken the law resist enforcers of the law, they incur penalties
that are even more serious.
From the American point of view, increasing tariffs was not retaliation but a sanction, or apenalty for breaking a promise. Therefore, the expression “trade war” is an inaccurate
description of what should be referred to as American trade sanctions against China. The
situation being what it was, President Trump executed a second, third, and fourth round of tariff
hikes in quick succession. Affected were $350 billion worth of Chinese imports. At that point
even Xi Jinping apparently became conciliatory; on January 15, 2020, in return for a permanent
halt on some of the tariffs and a delay on other tariff hikes, the Chinese agreed to sign the China
Phase One Agreement, according to which China will purchase $200 billion in American goods
over a period of two years.

9The villain: force majeure clause
But when Liu He, a Chinese vice premier, arrived in Washington on January 13, he insisted thata force majeure clause (which excuses either party from a contractual obligation if unforeseen
events occur) be included in the agreement. The inclusion of such a clause is not unusual, but bythat time the Wuhan coronavirus was already beginning to spread (a bit of information that only
the Chinese had), and there were already signs that it could turn into an epidemic. We may
assume that the Chinese were plotting to use the force majeure clause as an excuse to avoid
fulfilling their obligations. In actuality, China has not fulfilled those obligations, and President
Trump has said any number of times that in light of the damage incurred by the US from the
Wuhan coronavirus, the China Phase One Agreement has absolutely no meaning.
The underlying problem: honesty confronts deceit

The underlying problem behind the high-tech, financial, and ideological clashes that were causedby the trade war is the confrontation of sincerity and insincerity, honesty and dishonesty: acollision between the US, which keeps it promises, and China, which does not. Trump is neither
a very religious person nor an activist brimming with a sense of mission. Unlike President
Reagan, he had absolutely no intention of encouraging China to become a democratic nation. But
as the Chinese pointed out, he is a businessman president. Because he hasn’t been corrupted by
the depraved world of politics, he posed a simple question: Why don’t the Chinese keep theirpromises? Like the boy who, in all his innocence, shouted that the emperor was wearing noclothes, Trump puts his finger on the problem. And by extension, President Trump may act to
end the stranglehold of the CCP on China. That, too, may be the will of the gods.
3.

FINAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN CHINA AND THE US

US recognizes CCP as cancer
Warfare is an important means used to achieve an objective. When the battle is against cancer,
the objective can only be eradication of the cancer cells. If that battle is won, the patient survives;
if it is lost, he perishes. There is no in-between. There is no cease-fire or compromise. This
simple logic can be applied to China cancer, but China cancer is so huge that it cannot be
destroyed in one fell swoop. Therefore, our only option is to adopt a strategy that allows us toeradicate the malignant core. Then we can proceed to restore the less malignant peripheral
sections. If we understand this aspect of the battle, the final confrontation between the US andChina will be revealed to us.
The US does not use the word cancer, but Americans have come to realize that the CCP isindeed a cancer. They have faced the fact that unless the malignant tumor that is the CCP iscompletely destroyed, the very survival of the US will be in danger. This means that a
confrontation between the US and China will not be an easily won battle, but a desperate
struggle. Trade wars, high-tech wars, financial wars, cyber wars – these are incremental battles;
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planet will be consumed by China cancer. Since the US has finally recognized the danger, it must
emerge victorious over the CCP not only for its own sake, but for the survival of the free world.
Secretary Pompeo’s declaration
China has by now certainly caught on to the Americans’ strong
resolve.
On August 25, 2020 the People’s Daily devoted three entire
pages to a 30,000-character-long editorial lambasting US
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. This annoying screed was
China’s response to remarks made by Pompeo at the Richard
Nixon Presidential Library on July 23, 2020. We must view it
as a proxy for the angry Xi Jinping, but why did he not react
immediately instead of waiting more than a month to speak hispiece? Actually, the delay tells us what sort of situation he is in
now: a tight spot.
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo
Pompeo’s address could be interpreted as a declaration of his intent to overthrow the CCP, andyou can be sure that he hit Xi Jinping where it hurts. Pompeo urges the nations of the world tojoin the US in forming a network that encircles China. If the US demonstrates that it is ready forwar, Xi Jinping will get the message. But if tension between the two nations builds up to thepoint where the Chinese become more aggressive, that will be playing into the Americans’ hands.
That is why Xi held back so long after Pompeo’s speech.5 But Pompeo was not simply spouting
empty words. Soon after his address, on August 5, he announced the Clean Network program,designed to prevent Chinese intrusion. Then he visited Europe, where he asked for European
nations’ collaboration in the program. It was perhaps at this point that Xi Jinping finally realizedthat Pompeo was serious and used the People’s Daily editorial to broadcast his reaction. But thatreaction backfired and exposed the limits of Xi’s reasoning ability.
Chinese people grateful to Pompeo
Since the editorial was critical of Secretary Pompeo’s arguments, we should describe them.
Ironically, he was speaking from the viewpoint of the Chinese people when he criticized the CCP.
He enumerated facts that every Chinese knows but doesn’t dare speak out about: that Xi Jinping
does not speak for 1.4 billion Chinese and that the PLA does not exist to protect those 1.4 billion.
If Xi had not used the People’s Daily as the instrument of his rebuttal, those 1.4 billion would nothave had any way of knowing that Pompeo was speaking for them.

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The online version of the People’s Daily also carried the editorial in question, which triggered ahuge response. Internet users in China posted comment after comment. Most of them expressedgratitude to the People’s Daily and to Pompeo. Their gratitude to Pompeo was for speaking on
their behalf; their gratitude to the People’s Daily was for printing the gist of Pompeo’s remarks.
They said that they wouldn’t have known that the US secretary of state had spoken on theirbehalf if it hadn’t been for the People’s Daily. Since the Chinese government had called Pompeo
the enemy of all mankind, the Chinese people were eager to learn what sort of outburst had
emanated from the mouth of this scoundrel.
Thanks to the People’s Daily, they discovered that Secretary Pompeo was speaking on theirbehalf. This incident may have helped Pompeo move a step closer to his objective.
The CCP’s biggest fear: the Chinese people
More than any external enemy, the CCP is most afraid of its domestic enemy: the Chinese people.
Therefore, the best way to topple the CCP is to gain the cooperation of the Chinese people.
However, the US government has focused only on obtaining economic benefits throughcooperation with the Chinese communist government. The Washington elites have been pushing
the US in the wrong direction for decades, arguing that China should be perceived as a strategic
partner rather than an enemy and, seduced by quick profits, helping strengthen China into a
powerful enemy.
Fortunately, the Americans, who had embarked on a path that would lead them straight to hell,changed course. As is obvious from Secretary Pompeo’s speech, American strategy is not toisolate China, but to put an end to CCP rule. Pompeo has asked the world’s democratic nations tojoin with the US in accomplishing this historic enterprise, and it is clear that the US is moredetermined about this than it was about destroying the USSR. Also, Pompeo emphasizes the factthat the US has established a Space Force to combat China. We can view this move as adeclaration of war. His address will probably prove to be the most explicit belligerent statement
emanating from the US since World War II.
Villain is defeated in High Noon
A democratic nation will not change its course under normal circumstances. The US is no
exception. But once the Americans make up their minds to move in a new direction, they will
pursue their new goal to the bitter end, and American corporations, which normally pursue only
profits, will lend a hand. The US is a nation of immigrants, and rather than being bound byethnicity or culture, its people unite behind patriotism, which inspires citizens to fight to thedeath and has won their country respect. Patriotism is also the reason why no nation on thisplanet idly dares to provoke the US.
However, perhaps Xi Jinping has not done his homework, because he doesn’t seem to be awareof this fact. He continues to use money and violence to invade US territory. The Americans havefinally realized that the stature of their nation will be endangered if no one stops this hoodlum.
Xi’s outrageous behavior has forced the US to acknowledge that China is its enemy. Therefore,
the Americans have made it clear that they intend to destroy China’s one-party rule.
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not be tolerated. Like the showdown in High Noon, there is no possible outcome other than thedefeat of the villain.
Trump discovers the true China
President Trump did not view China as the enemy right away. All he wanted to do was correct
the trade imbalance with China; he probably hadn’t thought seriously about China at all. But
through the trade war he discovered China’s true nature and realized that the evil Chinese had an
outrageous ambition to take control of the world. At about the same time as the trade war, theHong Kong problem arose. China took advantage of the trade-war distraction to force the Hong
Kong National Security Law down the throats of Hong Kong residents, robbing them of theirfreedom and human rights virtually overnight. Even that one act must have awakened President
Trump to the evils of the CCP.
Enemy of the human race: CCP spreads coronavirus all over the world
In early 2020 the Wuhan coronavirus began to spread throughout the world. The US also
suffered incalculable damage from that virus. The US economy, of which President Trump was
prouder than anyone, hit bottom. The number of unemployed ballooned and crime increased. The
coronavirus completely destroyed all of Trump’s efforts.
But did the main culprit, China, apologize? Not once. Instead, in a shameless, unscrupulous
move, the Chinese told the nations of the world that they should be grateful to China.
Shamelessness is not new to China, but there was a method in this particular madness.
The Chinese advertised that they had prevented the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, andcrowed at home and abroad about how capably the CCP was governing. That stance leads us tobelieve that the Wuhan coronavirus served as a tool for Xi Jinping’s construction of his Chineseled community of common destiny. China plotted to expand its power, taking advantage of the
spread of the virus to use lifesaving medical supplies, such as protective clothing, ventilators,
and pharmaceutical raw materials as weapons. As the creators of an emergency situation, a crisis
that threatened mankind’s survival, the Chinese were using that crisis to gain control of the world.
Therefore, we must conclude that the Chinese created the Wuhan coronavirus, and did sodeliberately. The CCP is, without question, the enemy of the human race.
This is how the Americans came to understand the evil of the CCP. Now they know that hisbattle is not about profits, but about protecting core values, they support a confrontation with
China. If the war is over values, Americans will not rest until the CCP is demolished. For
instance, they may align themselves strategically with the opposition forces within the CCP, butthey will never allow the CCP to continue to exist.
US reduces CCP’s economic clout
Once a strategy has been decided upon, decisions about tactics are not difficult to make. The US
has an abundance of tactics available for use. As Secretary Pompeo mentioned in his address, atthis point the Americans can emerge victorious. In actuality, the current trade war has dealt ahuge blow to China’s economy, and its government is financially pressed. Wars are expensive.
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funds. Not only the trade war, but also the American prohibition against Chinese exports of hightech products and technology have hit the Chinese economy hard. One example is that Huawei
can no longer manufacture high-performance smart phones.
The Clean Network program announced by the US State Department also struck a stunning blow
to the Chinese internet industry. It divides cyberspace in two, just as the world was divided into
East and West camps during the Cold War. The result is that the Chinese internet industry cannot
participate in the free online world. If this policy is implemented, Chinese internet industry
profits will decrease significantly, and the CCP, which infiltrated the free world throughcyberspace, will find it harder to collect data. For the US this means killing two birds with one
stone; for China it is a one-two punch.
US hasn’t ruled out military confrontation
The US will try its best to come up with a way to destroy the CCP without resorting to militarymeans. But once they have decided to demolish the CCP, the Americans cannot rule out militarymeans. To stave off reckless action on the part of the Chinese, a US military presence will benecessary. The US military is bound to make an appearance in every area where PLA troops areskulking, such as the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the East China Sea.
Since we are talking about two superpowers that possess nuclear weapons, it’s hard to imagine afull-blown military confrontation, but a sudden or limited military clash is not unthinkable.
Should that occur, the US should not be the only opponent China faces. The nations near theSouth China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait (the nations that might engage with
China) are all either declared or presumed allies of the US. Since a military confrontation
between the US and China directly affects their national security, they would be obligated to join
the US in fighting China. Ultimately such a conflict would be fought not only between China andthe US, but among China and the US and its allies. You don’t need to be a military scientist to
predict what the outcome would be.
A military setback for China would lead directly to the collapse of the CCP, because for theanti-Xi party members who have put up with him for so long, a military fiasco would present a
perfect opportunity for attack. In fact, there are elements both within the CCP and the PLA who
are anything but fond of Xi Jinping. It is likely that they are waiting patiently and vigilantly for
him to stumble.
Americans’ most powerful weapon: data on CCP elite overseas assets
The Americans’ most powerful weapon involves neither military prowess nor high technology. It
is information about assets high-ranking CCP officials have hidden overseas. The US media has
already been made aware of this information through the Panama Papers. The Chinese suspectthat these officials have hidden assets overseas, but they have no way of obtaining details. Somepeople operating within the “system” have access to that information, but since everyone iscorrupt, they know that if they try to make use of the information to attack someone, there could
be backfire. Even if they do gain access to inside information, they can’t use it to initiate an
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information they obtain on to the Chinese people, the outcome (and reaction) may be very
different.
While the Chinese economy was growing steadily, the Chinese people closed their eyes to highranking officials’ corruption. But that will change if the economy goes into a recession. If thepeople find out that their profits are being eaten up by officials while they themselves are
suffering, it is possible that small-scale, localized protests my expand to nationwide protests.
People who become financial refugees after being defrauded, retired soldiers who got cheatedout of their pensions – they will rise up and grow into a force that cannot be resisted. At thatpoint the CCP will crumble immediately.
Need for response will throw CCP into chaos
Of course, placed in such a disadvantageous position, the CCP is not going to stand by idly. But
there will be signs in their reactions that betray their confusion. While the Chinese government
adopted a belligerent stance (wolf-warrior diplomacy), attacking Secretary Pompeo viciously,
calling him the common enemy of the human race, on another stage its officials appealed to theUS, insisting that they don’t want to break off ties. China is a shameless, pathetic nation thatthrows tantrums when an opponent wants to be rid of it after being kicked and punched. But
there are signs that even Xi Jinping realizes that he won’t be able to avoid a militaryconfrontation if the situation continues to worsen.
Xi-style isolationism
One of those signs could be detected in Xi’s remarks at a CCP Politburo meeting held in July
2020. Xi declared that he will initiate an internal-circulation economy for China. Apparently, thisnew announcement created quite a stir. Then he did an about-face and said that China would use
dual circulation, meaning both external and internal circulation. What does this mean? This may
seem like a new term, but there’s nothing new about it. Dual circulation refers to an export-led
economy, and internal circulation, an import-led economy.
Since China is part of the world’s trade system, some of its economy depends on exports, andsome on imports. But Xi Jinping’s focus now is on domestic demand and only domestic demand.
This is because exports have been adversely affected by the trade war with the US andrestrictions on high-tech products and technology. Since Xi has been forced to accept this reality,
his focus has changed to domestic demand.
What he is advocating is isolationism, a concept that evokes ancient history. Until 40 years ago
China was a closed nation, and North Korea remains closed. The path Xi has chosen is rather
than implode, to break off from the outside world, and turn China into a giant North Korea. Of
course, living in a giant North Korea will cause the Chinese people to suffer. But like the Kim
dynasty, Xi and his cronies will enjoy the rewards of power. Xi may be thinking that such an
eventuality is preferable to total destruction.
Will China, which has been a primary beneficiary of globalization, be able to survive on an
isolationist policy? Since China has everything it needs, it is not an impossibility. Still, if Xi
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leader would do such a thing, but Mr. Me First must be considering it as his escape route. So that
may be why on August 24, 2020, he invited nine economists to an internal-circulation
symposium in Beijing, and had them rubber-stamp domestic-demand-oriented economy plan.
Here, by economists we mean flunkies in his thrall.
Digital yuan will control the wallets of 14 trillion Chinese
There is one more task Xi Jinping must accomplish. He must gain control of the wallets of eachand every resident of China. He plans to do that by digitizing the yuan.
Although China is already the world leader in mass surveillance, Xi cannot relax. The more
power rulers accumulate, the more fearful they become. Xi doesn’t seem satisfied monitoring the
speech and actions of 14 trillion Chinese. He must also keep track of their wallets. In 2014 Xi
began refining a plan to digitize the yuan. If the People’s Bank of China digitizes the paper
currency under its control, the government will be able to track the flow of money to and fromevery person in China. The citizens of China won’t be able to hide their illicit gains the way they
can hide paper currency now. When Xi came up with this idea in 2014, he was probably thinking
that he could seize the vast amounts of money hidden by high-ranking officials by managing theflow of all currency as part of his planned economy.
The autocratic economic sphere
Another possibility is the creation of a Chinese economic sphere pitted against the US dollar.
Experiments are now being conducted in Shenzhen, Suzhou and other regions. In some cases,
real estate in Shenzhen must be purchased and sold using digital yuan. Xi’s ultimate objective
seems to be doing away with paper money completely. This is a type of devaluation, which
wrests slush funds hidden by high-ranking officials and the mattress money squirreled away byordinary Chinese away from them in one fell swoop. Furthermore, it is possible that digital yuan
cannot be exchanged for US dollars or gold. In that case, it won’t be possible to use the digitalyuan except in China and a few other dictatorships as the currency of the autocratic economic
sphere.
Since the dollar-yuan divide has become a reality with the conflict between the US and China, itwill become even more necessary for China to create a digital yuan economic sphere. Even so,
only nations that cannot exchange their currency with US dollars would join, meaning Iran andNorth Korea.
I have described the options available to Xi Jinping, should he lose his confrontation with the US.
To avoid the worst possibility, complete collapse, he will probably choose to mold China into a
giant North Korea. Of course, this would be the worst choice for the Chinese people, but Xi
Jinping does not care about the yuan or the Chinese people.
Xi Jinping provokes Chinese people
Xi Jinping’s so-called internal circulation economy and the digitization of the yuan will cause theChinese people even more suffering. This means that Xi’s misguided policies will provoke theChinese people and hasten the collapse of the CCP. The more he continues to accumulate power,

16the more he will be putting himself in danger. All democratic nations, including Japan, the US,
and Taiwan, must give whole-hearted support to those Chinese who attempt to resist Xi’styranny. Democratic nations will protect the Chinese people as they combat oppression by the
CCP, and supply them with funds, commodities, and information. When they encounter
oppression, they will need weapons and help with military training. That will be the best way tohelp them, rather than sending troops to China, and will cost far less. That is what will be needed
to topple the great evil, an enemy of the human race the likes of which has never been seen
before. If the democratic nations come forward with a clear stance like this, the majority ofChinese people opposed to Xi’s insane policies are bound to rise up.
Chinese people chief beneficiaries if CCP falls
If Xi Jinping’s regime collapses, the situation in China is bound to be chaotic for a while. To
achieve the initial strategic objective, i.e., the toppling of the CCP, help from the Chinese people
will be absolutely necessary. To motivate them, appropriate propaganda warfare will be needed.
The primary beneficiaries of the collapse of the CCP will be the Chinese people. They should beaware of that, and they are surely hoping to live in a free, democratic society, a society thatvalues human rights. Only the US can help them to achieve that. The US must commit itself tothis goal, and not let this chance pass it by. Since victory will bring happiness to everyone except
for Xi Jinping and his cronies, the US should strive toward that goal and unite with its allies toachieve it.
In other words, the conquest of China cancer will benefit the Chinese people as much as the restof the world. This battle will be for the liberation of the Chinese people. Perhaps the US armed
forces will serve as the true people’s liberation army for the Chinese people. The time is now.

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