BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) — A Chinese international ministry spokesperson on Tuesday urged Japan to attract severe classes from its historical past of militarist aggression and recommit itself to the post-war worldwide order.
Spokesperson Wang Wenbin made the remarks at a press briefing in response to a related query.
Wang stated because the host of the upcoming G7 Summit, Japan has been stoking and creating bloc confrontation, which undermines the pursuits of the area. China firmly opposes this.
Japan has been referring to the identical narrative over and over, and has been making an attempt to slander its neighbors, Wang stated, including that this will solely be defined by its must deflect consideration from its personal actual try to unilaterally change the established order.
He famous that some in Japan have been doing all they’ll to whitewash the nation’s historical past of aggression, honor its militarists and justify their crimes. “They even claim that ‘any contingency for Taiwan is a contingency for Japan.’ Isn’t that the definition of ‘changing the status quo?'”
If Japan is actually in opposition to “unilateral change to the status quo,” there are a number of issues it may possibly do. It can cease these inside Japan from making an attempt to show again the wheel of historical past, draw severe classes from its historical past of militarist aggression, recommit itself to the post-war worldwide order, and cling to the one-China precept and the spirit of the 4 political paperwork signed between China and Japan, Wang stated.