“In any case, I believe that at this time we should sever our military relationship with the United States. At the same time, we should demand the severing of the military relations with Japan maintained by China and the Soviet Union. Then, with Japan, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China—so to speak, the four countries spanning the two camps—at the center, we must establish a new security system. I maintain that this must be the basis of Japanese diplomacy.”