China-FM Briefing/Japan/Shangri-La Dialogue
China-FM Briefing/Japan/Shangri-La Dialogue
Dateline : June 1, 2026
Location : Beijing,China
Duration : 2'28
Beijing, China - June 1, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Briefing in progress
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman:
"The remarks by the Japanese official you mentioned were entirely groundless, weak in face of a series of historical and jurisprudential facts and figures, and unable to win the trust of Japan's Asian neighbors and the international community."
3. Reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman:
"Japan's defense budget for fiscal 2026 has already topped 9 trillion yen (about 56 billion U.S. dollars), renewing the post-war record high for the 14th straight year. Japan's defense spending per capita is three times that of China. Japan's defense budget has surged to 2 percent of the country's GDP, and may further increase to 3.5 percent. The Japanese defense ministry's military-industrial orders increased threefold over the past five years."
5. Reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman:
"The Japanese official deliberately evaded historical crimes and responsibilities, selectively ignored the above-mentioned facts, and instead attempted to shift blames and confuse public opinions. Was this out of Japan's guilty conscience, or its aim to cover up the ambition of military expansion? Under such circumstances, Japan's so-called 'dialogue' is also hypocritical, and it is merely a posture and pretense, with no sincerity at all."
7. Reporters
8. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman:
"International experts and scholars have pointed out that a series of recent wrongful words and deeds of the Japanese side have threatened regional peace and stability, because they are the same as the process of Japanese militarists planning and launching wars, which was exposed by the Tokyo Trials (1946-1948). The international community must remain highly vigilant, jointly prevent and resolutely curb the neo-militarism from gaining momentum and becoming a scourge."
9. Various of reporters, briefing in progress
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday lashed out at the Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi's Sunday speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2026 in Singapore, calling on the international community to resolutely curb Japan's neo-militarism from gaining momentum and becoming a scourge.
Responding to a relevant question at a regular press conference in Beijing, Lin Jian, the spokesman, described as "hypocritical" the claim of the Japanese defense minister that Japan is not seeking new militarism, saying the statement in the speech was just intended to evade Japan's historical crimes and responsibilities, shift blames and confuse public opinions.
"The remarks by the Japanese official you mentioned were entirely groundless, weak in face of a series of historical and jurisprudential facts and figures, and unable to win the trust of Japan's Asian neighbors and the international community," Lin said.
Japanese militarists committed heinous crimes during World War II. With the aim of preventing the resurgence of Japanese militarism, a series of instruments with legal effects under international law, including the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Proclamation, clearly require that Japan should be completely disarmed and not maintain such industries as would enable the country to re-arm for war. Japan's post-war pacifist Constitution also made strict restrictions on the country's military forces, the right of belligerency and the right to war, according to Lin.
"Japan's defense budget for fiscal 2026 has already topped 9 trillion yen (about 56 billion U.S. dollars), renewing the post-war record high for the 14th straight year. Japan's defense spending per capita is three times that of China. Japan's defense budget has surged to 2 percent of the country's GDP, and may further increase to 3.5 percent. The Japanese defense ministry's military-industrial orders increased threefold over the past five years," said the spokesman.
Since taking office, the current Japanese government has accelerated the deployment of intermediate-range offensive missiles, lifted ban on lethal weapons exports, and promoted revisions of the pacifist Constitution and the three national security documents, attempting to further break free from international law and domestic laws and challenge the post-war international order, Lin said.
"The Japanese official deliberately evaded historical crimes and responsibilities, selectively ignored the above-mentioned facts, and instead attempted to shift blames and confuse public opinions. Was this out of Japan's guilty conscience, or its aim to cover up the ambition of military expansion? Under such circumstances, Japan's so-called 'dialogue' is also hypocritical, and it is merely a posture and pretense, with no sincerity at all," he said.
"International experts and scholars have pointed out that a series of recent wrongful words and deeds of the Japanese side have threatened regional peace and stability, because they are the same as the process of Japanese militarists planning and launching wars, which was exposed by the Tokyo Trials (1946-1948). The international community must remain highly vigilant, jointly prevent and resolutely curb the neo-militarism from gaining momentum and becoming a scourge," said the spokesman.
ID : 8482316
Published : 2026-06-01 17:08
Last Modified : 2026-06-01 22:19:53
Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
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