Who Is China Afraid Of?
(Aucun Japonais ont peur des forces militaires chinoises.)
SECTION I: China's View on Site of the Senkaku Islands
China has stopped export of rare metals/rare earth to Japan.
China has arrested four Japanese workers of a Japanese company in Hebei Province, China, for a strange reason related to military facilities.
China is shouting like North Korea, "Japan alone has to take every responsibility for what is going on and will happen."
Yet, a Chinese skipper who allegedly hit his fishing boat against a Japan Coast Guard ship in the Japanese territorial sea around the Senkaku Islands early this month is now under a due judicial procedure in Japan.
http://japanese.china.org.cn/politics/txt/2010-09/21/content_20981516.htm#p=3&r=0.6785493035997288
SECTION II: Japan Made Chinese GDP Grow
First of all, 30% or so of China's GDP of today should be counted as Japan's GDP.
Western economists and elites in the world did not know history in East Asia and Japan and China. But, suddenly, they were shocked to learn that China starts to claim that its GDP is now world No.2 with some statistics, while the Japanese economy has been in deflation for 15 years.
They cannot link the China's rise to Japan's deflation. But, the answer is in it.
Since late 1970's, Japan has continued to invest huge funds into China, relocate a huge number of factories into China, and transfer personnel, know-hows, and technologies to China. This is movement of a large-scale transfer of potential GDP from Japan to China. This kind of huge transfer of a nation's GDP potential to another country has never happened in the human history; hence Western economists and elites cannot understand this truth about China's GDP.
As a result, the Chinese economy started to grow at a pace that has bewildered the world. Yet, Chinese leaders and elites did not openly and candidly express their gratitude to Japan. They hid the great Japanese contribution from the eyes of the Chinese people and the world, so that the Chinese people and the world would not respect Japan and take Chinese leaders lightly.
As the Chinese Communist Party put their legitimacy on the grounds that they bravely fought and won troops of the Empire of Japan who was forever evil, their leaders cannot show gratitude to Japan. Chinese leaders cannot do anything that might lead to a need for changing a view on Japan and their version of history around WWII.
The Chinese Communist Government exists mostly because they make Japan the greatest enemy of China. The Chinese Government makes the Chinese people hate Japan but not the Chinese Government no matter how evil things elite Chinese do to Chinese people.
But, why did Japan have to transfer such potential GDP to China?
1) The Japanese market was already getting saturated in early 1990's.
2) The nature, environment, and local communities in Japan faced a potential crisis due to an excess of development with so many plants, factories, industrial facilities, and commercial activities.
3) Global competition was intensified with advancement of transportation and telecommunications as well as computer power. Subsequent cost competition requested reduction of labor costs. So, Chinese workers are needed as their salary level was fairly lower than Japanese workers'.
4) Some cultural compatibility exists between Japan and China. Though traditional culture, language, social customs and systems, and historical backgrounds are so remote to each other, both the Japanese and Chinese people use Kanji letters and Japanese people well understand Chinese classic literature and philosophy, such as Confucianism. Japanese businessmen feel easy to go and work in China.
5) Memory of WWII or the Japan-China war before WWII has made Japanese people at large feel sorry for Chinese victims of the wars, though the Chinese Communist Party is also heavily responsible for the tragedy of the Chinese people in those wars. So, many Japanese wanted to help China develop economically. This good will actually took some important part in Japan's aid to China since 1970's.
Accordingly, since late 1970's, Japan has continued to invest huge funds into China, relocate a huge number of factories into China, and transfer personnel, know-hows, and technologies to China. This is movement of large-scale transfer of potential GDP from Japan to China. This kind of a huge transfer of a nation's GDP potential to another country has never happened in the human history; hence Western economists and elites cannot understand this truth about China's GDP.
It is true that the growth of the Chinese economy was truly accelerated in 2000's. But, there are some tricks in figures the Chinese Government presents to the world, since China is not an open and democratic nation where expert criticism and rigorous reviews are allowed against any official announcements.
In summary, 30% or so of China's GDP of today should be counted as Japan's GDP.
SECTION III: Japanese Businesses in China
According to Chinese data around 2005:
The number of Japanese businesses and their branches in China: 16,000
(4,500 are located around Shanghai.)
(http://www.interq.or.jp/tokyo/ystation/china4.html)
It is very extraordinary.
If 16,000 German companies move into Russia, the Russian GDP will surely increase by 30%.
So, the GDP of China, which includes 40% or so contribution from the dubious construction/real estate sectors, is not a matter of serious concern, probably till it nominally surpasses America's.
When most of Americans come to suffer degradation of the living standards due to Chinese operations in the global and American markets, American people will really start to take it seriously, trying to see what autocratic China is for them.
However, it can be said that Japan is making great efforts through its economic relationship to change China to a democratic and peaceful nation, from a historical point of view.
SECTION VI: Contribution of Foreign Companies in China
Let's check data and a figure the Japanese Government presents.
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Finally, today, district prosecutors of Okinawa Prefecture decided to release a Chinese skipper who damaged a Japan Coast Guard ship in the Japanese territorial water around the Senkaku Islands, taking fully into consideration quasi-terrorist behaviors of China, in my observation.
(Four Japanese law-abiding corporate workers under arrest by China might be harmed in ritaliation for the detention of the Chinese skipper.)
Yet, such a decision cannot be made by district prosecutors alone.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Mr. Sengoku looks like having worked on the district prosecutors through the highest-level of administrative channels so as to release the Chinese skipper of an agressive fishing boat.
However, it looks like that 80% of Japanese voters doubt this proceeding of the incident involving Japan's sovereignty.
When Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan returns to Tokyo from the United Nations assembly, he will have to face strong criticism.
This incident alone can decide the fate of the Kan Cabinet.
Anyway, many Japanese have confirmed that the Senkaku Islands belong to Japan and the Chinese Communist Party is so dangerous like a quasi-terrorist.
This incident alone must decide the fate of the Chinese Communist Party.
Opposition LDP Lower-House member Mr. Masahisa Sato wrote that today 6,000 viewers have accessed his blog, since he is an ex-officer of the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Forｃe who was once dispatched to Iraq.
(http://east.tegelog.jp/?blogid=24 )
I really think that Japan should be prepared for the worst case scenario where a China-Vietnam War (February 17 – March 16, 1979)-class armed conflict could be triggered by bellicose China against peace-loving Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luk 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.