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Wang Wenbin: Japan Undermines Interests of Region, China Firmly Opposes It


Wed 17 May 2023 | 12:30 PM
By Ahmad El-Assasy

Spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wang Wenbin said that as the host of the upcoming G7 Summit, Japan has been stoking and creating bloc confrontation, which undermines the interests of the region. China firmly opposes it.

Asked: What Japan has done – referring to the same narrative over and over again and trying to smear its neighbors – can only be explained by its need to deflect attention to its own and actual attempt to unilaterally change the status quo. In international legal instruments such as the Potsdam Proclamation and the Cairo Declaration which constitute the legal basis of the post-war international order, it is stated that Taiwan’s return to China is an important component of the post-WWII international order. However, some in Japan have been doing all they can to whitewash the history of aggression, honor the militarists and justify their crimes. They even claim that “Any contingency for Taiwan is a contingency for Japan”. Isn’t this the definition of “changing the status quo”?

  If Japan is truly against “unilateral change to the status quo”, one thing it can do is to stop those within Japan trying to turn back the wheel of history, draw serious lessons from the history of Japan’s militarist aggression, recommit itself to the post-war international order and adhere to the one-China principle and the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan.