BEIJING: The accusations against China in Japan’s newly released annual defense white paper are fabricated to justify its own military expansion, a Chinese defense ministry spokesman said.
Jiang Bin, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry made the remarks in response to the Defense of Japan 2025 white paper, which continues to label China as an “unprecedented and the greatest strategic challenge”.
The report also falsely accuses China of “intensifying unilateral changes to the status quo by force” and made negative comments regarding the Taiwan question.
Jiang said that Japan is exaggerating the “China threat” and wants to only interfere in China’s internal affairs, stressing that the Chinese side expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to it and has lodged stern representations to the Japanese side.
“Japanese militarism once brought severe disasters to China and its Asian neighbors,” he emphasized, criticizing Japan for not reflecting seriously but instead showing a dangerous trend of military expansion and significantly increasing its defense budget.
Japan is continually loosening restrictions on arms exports, forming small military circles for bloc confrontation, and occasionally suggesting modifications to its Three Non-Nuclear Principles, he said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
