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Tokyo Governor: U.S. Cannot Win War Against China Because PRC Does Not Value Human Life

November 5, 2005 :: Asahi Shimbun :: News

On November 4 the Asahbi Shimbun newspaper quotes Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara as saying that the United States could not possibly win a war against China because Beijing “holds no value at all for human life.”


Ishihara, no stranger to hawkish and controversial remarks, said the means of countering the threat from China would be through economic containment by strengthening ties with India and Russia… “Wars are a war of attrition of lives. China holds no value at all for human life and can start a war without any concerns,” he said. “We are now in a state of tension far more dangerous than during the Cold War period when the United States and the former Soviet Union were at odds.” The Tokyo governor warned: “If tensions mount between the United States and China, the two sides could pull the trigger on each other. Then, the more the fire expands, the United States, which has a civil society that highly values human life, would not be able to win… We believe Japan is being protected under the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, but it is a very unreliable treaty,” he said. “If China were to fire a nuclear weapon with the aim of blasting the Japan-U.S. security program, the target will likely be either Tokyo or Okinawa. I want my friends in the United States to know that such a circumstance is becoming real.” Touching on China’s successful experiment in June in launching a ballistic missile from its new submarine, Ishihara said, “It is an extremely grave historical fact that China owns nuclear arms and has succeeded in the experiment with a high degree of precision.”

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