Open letter to Japan
Beijing is governed by the Politburo and the People's Liberation Army, neither of which is a friend to humanity nor even to the people of China itself, given that the interference by the PRC in the internal affairs of Japan, the US, Korea, and Taiwan is a regular and accepted feature of conducting relations with China.
Further, market share has not given Japan a profitable trade relation with China. The goal of achieving the rationalization of the PRC state is achieved through its learning to live with Taiwan as the other sovereign state of China.
The behavior of the PRC's foreign ministry and the linking of trade with diplomatic goals by China, when coupled with the arming of its missile forces for either an attack or overt pressure on Taiwan, gives little credence that WTO accession will improve the fundamental behavior or alter the basic policy objectives of that state.
Formation of a common market in Asia is key to forming security arrangements in East Asia which endure and which rationalize the childish but dangerous policy goals of the PRC state. The de-linking of internal foreign policy decisions by Japan or the US from the coercive tactics of the PRC is essential to the series of prerequisite steps necessary to the formation of a common market in Asia.
It is time for both the US and Japan to determine a path for policy which coordinates the channeling of China away from its temper tantrums, its oblique and direct threats, and its imposition of a mythical imperial legacy upon the modern world.
The PRC is an anachronism of the Cold War and of revolution in China. It needs to change in its fundamental character and this change will be assisted by the common policy of the Allied Powers.
Eric Hands
Seattle, Washington
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