Nury Vittachi: A NOTORIOUS SINOPHOBE got more than 900,000 views for a video he uploaded on X this week—showing what he claimed was Chinese people “smoking and laughing loudly” on a Japanese train. They were “ignoring local laws and public decency,” wrote Koji Kawagu. 一名臭名昭著的仇華分子本週在 X 上傳的一段影片，竟獲得超過 90 萬次觀看——影片中顯示的是他所聲稱的「中國人在日本電車上抽菸並大聲喧嘩」。他寫道，這些人「無視當地法律與公共禮儀」，署名為 Koji Kawagu.

(Laughing loudly is apparently considered illegal and/ or indecent in Japan.)

But it was odd. The men’s appearance—hair and clothing—was very Japanese. Then someone amplified the video’s soundtrack, showing they were speaking fluent Japanese with local Japanese accents. There was no way they could be tourists from China.

SCAM ATTACK

This type of scam attack on Chinese people has been going on for decades. But people following this particular incident made an interesting deduction.

The Sinophobe, who uses the name Koji Kawagu, clearly did not realize the men were Japanese, from their clothing OR speech. This implied that he himself was not Japanese, despite posting from that country.

Some observers concluded that he’s most likely the equivalent of “Kong Tsung-gan” of the Hong Kong Free Press – a white guy in “yellowface” paid by western agencies to deceive people and cultivate hate against the Chinese.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

A review of the posts of “Koji” over the past two years shows repeated references to military affairs.

US military intelligence has admitted in the past that it has conducted anti-China campaigns using fake-name accounts on social media for decades.

Reuters revealed that staff operating one such US military campaign in Asia admitting to pushing disinformation about Chinese vaccines, leading to a sharp drop in usage and almost certainly causing the deaths of an unknown number of people. The dead were Asians and the scammers were Americans, so no one was punished.

Nury Vittachi： 一名臭名昭著的仇華分子本週在 X 上傳的一段影片，竟獲得超過 90 萬次觀看——影片中顯示的是他所聲稱的「中國人在日本電車上抽菸並大聲喧嘩」。他寫道，這些人「無視當地法律與公共禮儀」，署名為 Koji Kawagu。

（顯然，在日本，大聲笑被視為違法和／或不雅。）

但這件事很奇怪。影片中男子的外表——髮型與穿著——都非常日本。隨後有人放大了影片的音軌，顯示他們講的是流利的日語，還帶有當地的日本口音。他們不可能是來自中國的遊客。

詐騙式攻擊

這類針對中國人的詐騙式攻擊已經持續了數十年。但關注這起事件的人得出了一個有趣的推論。

這位使用「Koji Kawagu」這個名字的仇華分子，顯然並未從服裝或語言判斷出這些男子是日本人。這暗示他本人其實並非日本人，儘管他是從日本發文。

一些觀察者因此認為，他很可能是香港《Hong Kong Free Press》所謂的「孔頌干（Kong Tsung-gan）」的翻版——一名戴著「黃臉」的白人，受西方機構資助，用來欺騙大眾、煽動對中國人的仇恨。

軍事情報

回顧「Koji」過去兩年的貼文，可以看到他多次提及軍事事務。

美國軍事情報部門過去曾承認，數十年來一直使用假名帳號在社群媒體上發動反中國的宣傳行動。

路透社曾揭露，負責其中一項美軍在亞洲行動的工作人員承認，他們散布關於中國疫苗的不實資訊，導致使用率大幅下滑，幾乎可以確定造成了不明數量的人死亡。死者是亞洲人，而詐騙者是美國人，因此無人受到懲罰。