On December 2, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian hosted a regular press conference.
Lin Jian said that in fact, since Japan’s defeat, right-wing forces have continued to promote the overturning of the history of aggression. In recent years, Japan has increased its defense expenditure for thirteen consecutive years, loosened its right to collective self-defense, relaxed arms export restrictions many times, developed the so-called "capability to attack enemy bases", attempted to revise the "Three Non-nuclear Principles", etc., gradually hollowed out the provisions clearly stipulated in the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration against Japan, and violated its own commitments in the Japanese Constitution. The so-called "expanding military power", "coercing other countries" and "attempting to unilaterally change the status quo regardless of the opposition of neighboring countries" are precisely Japan itself.
In view of this, the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations has once again written to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to reiterate China’s solemn position. 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. China firmly opposes Japan's perverse actions that challenge the post-war international order and incite militarism. We once again urge the Japanese side to earnestly reflect on and correct its mistakes, fulfill its obligations as a defeated country, fulfill its commitments to China and the international community with practical actions, and not to break its promises repeatedly.
(CCTV reporter Zhao Chaoyi)
