ShanghaiEye魔都眼 Has Japan truly made a clean break with militarism? China condemns Japan’s nuclear-related remarks

Lin Jian: China is seriously concerned over Japan’s military and security moves recently. While Japan claims to be a peace-loving country and advocates a world free of nuclear weapons, Sanae Takaichi’s authorities have been making ambiguous statements about the Three Non-Nuclear Principles and implying the possibility of quitting the principles. Japanese senior officials even claimed that Japan has not ruled out the possibility of possessing nuclear submarines. These fully reveal that Japan is making a major negative policy shift, which sends a dangerous signal to the international community.

During World War II, Japanese militarists’ war of aggression and brutal crimes against humanity inflicted untold suffering on the region and beyond. In recent years, Japan has been drastically readjusting its security policy, increasing defense spending year after year, relaxing restrictions on arms export, seeking to develop offensive weapons, and going further down the wrong path of military buildup. Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made provocative remarks on Taiwan which imply the possibility of armed intervention in the Taiwan Strait. Owing to these moves by Japan, its neighboring countries in Asia and the international community have to strongly call into question and worry about: Has Japan truly made a clean break with militarism? Is Japan sincerely committed to the exclusively defense-oriented policy and the Three Non-Nuclear Principles? Will Japan still act on its commitment to peaceful development?

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. It is also the 80th anniversary of the recovery of Taiwan. We urge Japan to repent for its history of aggression, stick to the path of peaceful development, stop finding excuses for its military buildup, and take concrete actions to earn the trust from its Asian neighbors and the international community.

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