CCP Outlet Bashes Shinzo Abe Just after Assassination- One of Several Sketchy Circumstances

Exclusive: The same day the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated at point blank range, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state media outlet insulted and bashed Abe. Add to that the Chinese social media messages before and after the shooting seemingly targeting Abe, and the situation gets very strange.

The video of Abe’s tragic July 8 assassination has been posted online:

Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray

This was the moment Shinzo Abe was assassinated.

What struck me immediately was how incredibly close the shooter was—even though he (the shooter) seemed to have been in an open space, no crowd. How does that even happen? There were clearly security, because they jumped on the guy seconds after he started firing. And yet, with the security so close they could practically spring on the shooter as he was firing, he was still able to get that close to Abe with a shotgun, in heavily gun controlled Japan? I’m no expert in how security works, but that sure seems odd to me. In fact, Japanese police are now admitting the security for Abe had flaws.

Abe’s killer claimed that he thought Abe was tied to a religious sect, that he did not kill Abe for political reasons, but who knows the true story. The killer had been planning the assassination for some time, NY Post reported.

Then there’s the fact that. . .the Chinese seem less than sorrowful at Abe’s death.

As I have previously reported for my Rogue Review column, the CCP was happy when the new Japanese PM Kishida took over.¹ Abe was friendly with Donald Trump, but he wasn’t friendly with the CCP in his later years. Remarking on Kishida’s presence at the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2022 conference, I wrote:

“CCP-controlled state media outlet CGTN ran an article in Dec. 2021 with an overall positive view of Kishida. ‘Kishida appointed Toshimitsu Motegi, a pro-China politician, as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), one of the most important positions within the party. . .the pro-China strength in the Kishida administration has greatly increased. . .[including] Kishida’s appointment of Yoshimasa Hayashi, renowned for his knowledge of and contacts in China, as the new Foreign Minister. . .It is worth noting that during the phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 8, Prime Minister Kishida indicated explicitly that Japan is willing to ‘take the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to make joint efforts in building a constructive and stable Sino-Japan relationship that meets the requirements of the new era.’’ Now, CGTN is of course hardly a trustworthy source—and it furthermore had its doubts about Kishida as well as its praise. If a CCP-controlled propaganda outlet has a lot of good things to say about someone, however, I would immediately put that someone down as highly questionable.”

Meanwhile, CCP propaganda outlet Global Times (which has openly threatened America, Australia, and Taiwan within the last 12 months) took the opportunity of Abe’s death to criticize his politics, and claim that Abe may have been assassinated for political reasons. It gets worse. Global Times also published another article, aggressively bashing Abe, mere hours after the incident. Why? Abe supported Taiwanese independence.

Taiwan is, in fact, the only legitimate (and free) China—the CCP came to power illegitimately through murder and has stayed in power through tyranny and genocide. Abe was 100% right to support Taiwan. Yet that support angered the CCP so much that a state news outlet bashed Abe for it almost right after his tragic death. Global Times even had the hypocrisy to pontificate about Japan’s previous war crimes, while totally ignoring the fact that the CCP has killed upwards of 500 million people, making it the greatest mass murderer of all time.²

“[Global Times] Chinese observers described the assassination of Abe as the biggest political incident in Japanese politics since the end of World War II and warned about ripple effects from the death of this controversial figure, who once contributed to China-Japan relations but later tore those achievements apart. . .While for the Chinese public, Abe was a controversial political figure - he had improved Japan's relations with China, which is marked by two icebreaking trips during his second term in 2013 and 2018, yet his remarks and actions, including frequent visits to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine and denial of Japan's invasion history, led to his bad reputation among Chinese public.

The first icebreaking visit was made after Japan's ludicrous territorial claim over the Diaoyu Islands which dragged bilateral relations to abyss. . .However, on December 2021, Abe, who had already left the post of prime minister, falsely claimed that "a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency," a serious violation and provocation against the one-China principle, not to mention his frequent visits and tributes to the Yasukuni Shrine.

Those wrong words and deeds after Abe stepped down almost completely overturned the achievements he once made in underpinning China-Japan ties.

Lü Chao, director of the Institute of the US and East Asian Studies at Liaoning University, described Abe as an ‘actor’. . .

But Lü pointed out that Abe did not recognize Japan's war crimes. That's why Abe spoke his mind after stepping down and acted unscrupulously over the Taiwan question. . .At the moment, Japan does not seem to have the potential to radically change the country's trajectory or the regional dynamics, but Abe's death could stimulate the extreme Japanese right wing to promote populist, xenophobic [i.e. anti-CCP] and even extreme political goals.”

That’s not an appropriate article to publish hours after a former world leader was assassinated. But then again, the CCP thrives on murder. In fact, despite Global Times’ seeming fear that Abe’s death could help Japan’s “right-wing,” who is to say that there was not a political motive for Abe’s death—but tied to China, not Japan?

Of course, there were outlets outside of China that seemed less than devastated by Abe’s death. NPR and the Associated Press called Abe a “divisive arch-conservative.” CBS slammed Abe as “a polarizing figure,” a “right-wing nationalist, and conservative” whose “political opinions were controversial.” Trump’s and Taiwan’s former ally in Japan is not being mourned by the pro-Communist, radical Left in America.

But what’s even weirder are allegations (emphasis on allegations) that the CCP has explicitly threatened Abe before—and a couple Chinese social media accounts had weird posts just before the shooting.

“[Gateway Pundit] Via Jennifer Zeng: #AbeShinzo died at about 11: 30 local time. At 18: 07 on the previous day, a Chinese language user called ‘重装小兔19C’ said ‘Have successfully got close to current and former PM of Japan. I’ll complete the task given by the organization[ meaning: the party, the #CCP]’. . .‘Important! The user "重装小兔19C_” is also on Twitter. He is following @AbeShinzo #ShinzoAbe and all other major @Japan #Japan accounts.’

Two users were discussing Abe before his assassination.

An open death threat was made by the Chinese Communist Regime much earlier before his assassination on Friday.”

Chinese nationals were reportedly celebrating the assassination on social media too (Global Times tried to justify that joy).

I would like to say that, although the above accusations have not been fully verified, it wouldn’t be surprising. Global Times threatened to make “cannon fodder” of Taiwan and Australia in October. Soon after it threatened to “wipe out” US troops. And, as mentioned above, the CCP death toll is 500 million—most of them Chinese. While we may never know the full truth, why on earth would it be shocking if the CCP killed one more man, and that man a Japanese leader who opposed their schemes of invasion and empire? The assassination of Shinzo Abe raises red flags—and those flags are looking awfully like the red flag of the Chinese Communist Party.

1. There was a PM in between Abe and Kishida.

2. I am not downplaying or denying Japan’s horrific war crimes and genocide in various parts of Asia during the WWII era. I am simply pointing out the CCP’s rank hypocrisy on the subject of mass murder.