Japan Parliament Adopts Resolution on Human Rights in China

Japan's parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution on the "serious human rights situation" in China, and called Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government to take steps to relieve the situation, as the Beijing Winter Olympics loom just days ahead.

Japan has already announced it will not send a government delegation to the Games, following a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott over concerns about China's human rights condition, although Tokyo avoided explicitly labelling its move as such.

Since taking office in October, Kishida has said on multiple occasions that Japan would not mince words with China when necessary, and in November appointed former defence minister Gen Nakatani as his aide on human rights.

Reading this article, it occurred to me to ask myself, why is Japan speaking truth to power against China when the United States simply will not do so?

My instinctive answer, both countries are mercantilist, Japan is a direct competitor for world markets with China. Both countries must look at the other and see a zero sum game. The Japanese, I presume, have not been suborned by the Chinese as have the Americans so clearly been. America is not the mercantilist power it should be if it wants to survive, rather it is made itself the patsy of the world opening its markets, hollowing its manufacture, enriching its elites, eviscerating its middle-class and amassing hopeless debt.

Less corrupt, or perhaps antagonistically corrupt, the Japanese are free.

Free to recognize the mortal threat to Japan made more imminent by proximity.

How many Japanese companies relocated their manufacturing into China, gave away their technology and have the CCP buy their public debt? I don’t know the quantitative answer to my question but my instincts based on some decades of dealings with that part of the world is that it is insignificant compared to what the US has done.

In the late 1980s, the new foreign policy wisdom with the entangled help of globalists was if the “free world” helps build and develop China, not only will the west get access to markets with billions of people (it did not), but also the CCP will see the west is not an enemy. The average Chinese citizen will become educated, middle class and not willing to lose or give up their better lifestyle. Hence CCP will naturally become more peaceful, maybe even embrace some form of capitalism. Did not quite work out after 30 years.

US foreign policy is so entangled with all its technology and business uprooted and sent to China that the US is neutered with China, and especially with current POTUS, family member to Hunter. (Trump was a black swan, he was openly fighting the CCP and internal US interests who were let’s say “bought off” by CCP or leveraged heavily in China). In addition, China has its spies and influencers all through the US in key institutions, taking advantage of a more open society. Propaganda and use of “diversity” helps the CCP.

See this recent law ... what the federal givernment does and then what business is forced to do in China, because they have no other options ... we are divided ...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/24/22852773/intel-apology-china-xinjiang-labor-goods

I am not surprised why there is no speaking truth to power from this continent.

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