BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) — A Chinese protection spokesperson on Thursday stated that Japan has laid naked its ambition for army enlargement.
Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense, made the remarks in response to a media question concerning Japan’s latest announcement of the deployment of long-range missiles with “enemy base strike capabilities,” which analysts stated was clearly focused at China.
Japan’s reckless and dangerously accelerated push for remilitarization is spiraling uncontrolled, Zhang stated, calling the transfer a whole betrayal of the nation’s pacifist Constitution and completely defense-oriented precept.
The proliferation of neo-militarism in Japan has develop into an actual menace, Zhang added.
“Should an evil tiger be unleashed from its cage, it would inevitably wreak havoc far and wide, and plunge the Japanese people into an abyss of disaster,” the spokesperson stated, urging the worldwide neighborhood to remain on excessive alert towards it.
The Chinese army will at all times have enough functionality to counter threats and provocations, make aggressors pay an insufferable worth, and defend China’s nationwide sovereignty, safety and improvement pursuits, Zhang stated.