China's Defense Ministry: Acts of Japanese Right-Wing Forces Blatantly Challenge the Postwar International Order
Senior Colonel Chen Xi, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, said on the afternoon of November 13 that the acts of Japanese right-wing forces are a blatant challenge to the postwar international order, responding to reports about Japan's revised security documents and urging the international community to stay highly vigilant against Japan's moves toward remilitarization.
A reporter had asked about reports that Japan's revised "three security documents" will continue to label China its "greatest strategic challenge," that defense spending will rise to between 70 trillion and 80 trillion yen over the next five years, and that the Japanese government is considering writing exceptions to the three non-nuclear principles into its revised National Security Strategy, potentially allowing nuclear weapons to be transported into Japan in an emergency.
Chen said Japan is a country defeated in World War II whose militarists inflicted untold suffering on the people of the Asia-Pacific and beyond, and that Japan should deeply reflect on its history of aggression and draw lessons from it. Instead, he said, Japanese right-wing forces keep fabricating a false "China threat" narrative, are accelerating defense spending and strengthening offensive combat and long-range strike capabilities, and are now seeking a gradual loosening of nuclear restrictions. Such moves, Chen said, betray Japan's own commitment to peace and blatantly challenge the postwar international order and the authority of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; the international community should remain highly vigilant, jointly curb Japan's remilitarization moves, uphold the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, and safeguard international security and peace.
(Source: Ministry of National Defense of China)
Source: Ministry of National Defense of China
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：中国国防部所在的八一大楼（资料图）。美国国防部照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Bayi Building in Beijing, headquarters of China's Ministry of National Defense (file photo). U.S. Department of Defense photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
