Future of China-Japan relations hinges on Japan’s choice, Wang Yi says

Wang Yi said the future of relations between China and Japan depends on the choices Japan makes, urging the country to reflect on its wartime history. Speaking on Sunday, Wang noted that last year marked the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War and said Japan should remember the suffering caused by its past aggression, including the colonization of Taiwan.

Wang criticized remarks by a Japanese leader suggesting that a “Taiwan emergency” could threaten Japan’s survival and trigger the right to collective self-defense. He stressed that Taiwan affairs are purely China’s internal matter and questioned what right Japan would have to intervene.

He also pointed to the 80th anniversary of the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the Tokyo Trials, which judged Japanese wartime leaders. Wang said the ruling exposed the crimes of Japanese militarists and expressed hope that people in Japan would remember history and avoid repeating past mistakes.

Credit : CGTN