BEIJING, (Xinhua): Japan’s intention of revising its three national security documents reflects its dangerous moves to speed up “remilitarization,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday, urging high vigilance from the international community.
Spokesperson Mao Ning made the remarks in response to recent remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that relevant discussions will be advanced toward the goal of revising the three national security documents within the year.
Mao told a regular press briefing that according to Japanese media reports, major adjustments to the three documents include increasing defense spending, revising the three non-nuclear principles, lifting restrictions on arms export and developing offensive military capability.
“It reflects the dangerous trend of Japan ‘remilitarizing’ itself faster, which is bound to undermine regional peace and stability. The international community must stay on high alert,” she said.
Mao emphasized that with the aim of preventing the revival of Japanese militarism, a series of instruments with legal effect under international law, including the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, clearly require Japan to be “completely disarmed” and not to maintain such industries as “would enable her to re-arm for war.”
She pointed out that Japan’s Constitution also made strict restrictions on the country’s military forces, the right of belligerency and the right to war.
However, in recent years, right-wing forces in Japan have been expediting military buildup and gradually breaking free from post-war norms such as the exclusively defense-oriented principle and a series of international rules, which constitutes a challenge to the post-war international order, Mao noted.
The right-wing forces time and again fabricated false narratives, and kept shifting focus, provoking its neighbors, creating troubles and stirring up tensions, said Mao, adding that they even pretended to be “threatened” and caught in a dead end.
She said that in fact, they are using “survival” and “defense” as an excuse to tie the Japanese people to the war chariot to serve their hidden agenda.
“What’s the difference between their practice and what the Japanese militarists did in the last century?” Mao asked.
“The painful lessons of history remind us that Japanese right-wing forces’ ‘remilitarization’ attempt has posed a threat to regional and world peace and tranquility,” Mao noted, adding that China and all peace-loving countries and people in the world should never allow Japanese right-wing forces to turn back the wheel of history or allow the revival of militarism.
