On the afternoon of May 28, the Ministry of National Defense held a regular press conference, where Senior Colonel Jiang Bin, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, answered questions from reporters.
Reporter: It has been reported that media outlets recently disclosed a draft of the first Defense White Paper under the administration of the Sanae Takaichi government. The draft portrays China's activities in the Pacific as a "security threat" and expresses vigilance. Meanwhile, the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary stated that Japan's "exclusively defensive defense" policy remains unchanged, and that China's claims about Japan's "new type of militarism" are unfounded. What is your comment on this?
Jiang Bin: Japan's words and actions are inconsistent, and its attempts to explain only make things worse. In recent years, the Japanese government has significantly increased its military spending, developed and deployed offensive weapons, relaxed restrictions on the export of lethal weapons, promoted the revision of its pacifist constitution, advocated becoming a "war-capable" nation, and even clamored to abandon the "three non-nuclear principles." If this can be called "exclusively defensive," then the word "offense" has no place in the dictionary. Japanese militarism caused profound disasters to the world and brought calamity to the Japanese people. The "gray rhino" of Japan's "remilitarization" is rushing towards us, which cannot but serve as a wake-up call. The international community should fully recognize Japan's "deceptive diplomacy" and "victim disguise," jointly curb Japan's "new type of militarism," and safeguard regional and global peace and stability