By concealing even the locations, Japan is deliberately dragging its feet in handling the issue—what can China do? As Japan continues its efforts to dispose of chemical weapons left behind in China, recently, Liu Jinsong, Director of the Department of Asian Affairs at China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urged Japan to provide effective burial location clues and significantly increase investment to accelerate the disposal process. Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, Japan has an obligation to destroy the chemical weapons it left behind in China, with the original plan scheduled for completion by 2007. However, Japan has repeatedly missed this deadline, and China has made multiple appeals.

Evidently, these leftover chemical weapons in China are like super time bombs that could be detonated at any moment. Japan’s persistent delays in addressing this issue reveal deep and dangerous calculations. This issue has become a strategic leverage tool used by Japan to pressure or blackmail us—if they had completed the task by 2007, they would have lost this bargaining chip. When we consider Japan’s current acceleration of military armament, expansion of military capabilities and defense industry, and its apparent return toward militarism and imperialism, the danger becomes even more alarming.

The most dangerous aspect is that Japan has consistently refused to disclose the exact burial sites of these chemical weapons. Normally, if they shared this information, joint cleanup operations between China and Japan would proceed much faster. Therefore, their refusal to inform us is clearly malicious and ill-intentioned. Moreover, we are well aware of how deeply Japan has infiltrated our society over the years—we have no idea how many Japanese spies and agents are secretly operating within China. What if, during a future military conflict or war between China and Japan, these individuals deliberately trigger the buried chemical weapons?

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1871915802523651/

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