BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) — Japan’s new protection funds plan additional reveals Japanese right-wing forces’ motive to remilitarize Japan and resurrect militarism, Chinese international ministry spokesperson Lin Jian stated on Friday.
Lin made the remarks at a daily news briefing when requested to touch upon Japan’s approval of its report protection funds plan exceeding 9 trillion yen (about 58 billion U.S. {dollars}) for fiscal 2026.
“Despite recent international criticism over latest military and security developments in Japan, the Japanese side has shown no inclination to mend its conduct, and instead plans to again hike defense budget,” Lin stated.
Given the Japanese militarists’ innumerable struggle crimes, Japan’s navy and safety strikes have all the time been intently watched by its Asian neighbors and the worldwide group. However, because the new Japanese authorities took workplace, it has been notably accelerating navy buildup, Lin stated.
Japan is deviating additional and additional away from the trail of peaceable growth and transferring in a harmful course, as evidenced by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s misguided remarks on China’s Taiwan area, which threaten using drive towards China, the remarks of a senior official of Takaichi’s workplace calling for Japan’s possession of nuclear weapons, the proposed revision of the three nationwide safety paperwork and the thought of altering the three non-nuclear rules, Lin stated.
In latest years, Japan has eliminated the ban on exercising the proper to collective self-defense, developed the so-called “capability to strike enemy bases,” strengthened cooperation on prolonged deterrence, and constructed its frontier islands into entrance traces, which clearly goes past Japan’s “exclusively defense-oriented” coverage, he stated.
Terms similar to “self-defense” and “counterstrike” are utilized by Japanese right-wing forces to gloss over their try and breach the post-WWII worldwide order and conditions in Japan’s Constitution, and deceive and stoke public opinion, Lin stated, including that these strikes have put the worldwide group on excessive alert.
Noting that the Japanese individuals are additionally victims of militarism, Lin stated some in Japan identified that elevating protection spending doesn’t deliver peace and stability.
Rallies have been held throughout Japan in sturdy protest of the Japanese authorities’s navy growth whereas some students additionally notice that the protection funds hike will weigh closely on Japan’s economic system and ultimately be borne by the abnormal folks in Japan, he stated.
“China will work with all peace-loving countries to push back any dangerous move designed to resurrect militarism or cultivate neo-militarism, and jointly defend the outcomes of WWII victory,” the spokesperson stated.