China’s regime-controlled news outlet condemned conservative Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Monday for daring to visit India while China’s dictator Xi Jinping began a trip to Russia.
On Monday, Kishida delivered a speech in India laying out Japan’s vision for the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” a concept spearheaded by late former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo meant to contain China’s violent colonialist conquests in the South China Sea.
China illegally claims nearly the entirety of the South China Sea, including territory belonging to the nations of Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Despitea territorial dispute case before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague against the Philippines in 2016, China has continued to build illegal artificial islands and military facilities in waters belonging to the Philippines and Vietnam, with minimal pushback.
“Given what the militarist Japan did to its neighbors before and during World War II, Japan’s regaining of military capability far beyond the needs of its self-defense undoubtedly poses a threat to regional peace and stability,”. “There is nothing wrong with Japan harboring the ambition to be a bigger player on the world stage. But that does not mean it needs to expand its military capability for that purpose.
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