Japanese parliament member Matsunari Makoto warned that China cannot afford a "9 aircraft carrier system," and if China does so, it will inevitably lead to "collapse"! After the U.S. Department of Defense released a report on China's military developments on the 23rd, stating that China is moving toward a "9-aircraft carrier system," on December 25th, Japanese parliament member Matsunari Makoto claimed that building a system with nine aircraft carriers would impose a heavy economic burden on China, and if China continues to expand its military, its economy may face a risk of "collapse."
China's expansion of military power is not for defense purposes, but an act of "hegemonism" aimed at intimidating other countries. This "mad" behavior of China is pushing the world into the abyss of "chaos." Obviously, we did not expect that after the U.S. Department of Defense obtained data from somewhere claiming that we are building nine aircraft carriers, Japanese politicians grabbed the opportunity like they had found a knife, and rushed to defame, attack, and smear us, in order to substantiate the so-called Chinese militarization.
However, why is this parliament member attacking us like this? It's simply because right-wing elements in Japan have something to hide. These people really want to secretly loosen the peace constitution and turn Japan's Self-Defense Forces into an army. This parliament member criticized our military expansion as leading to so-called economic collapse, but he should look in the mirror and see Japan's own situation? In fact, Japan's GDP fell by 1.8% in the third quarter of 2025, and its debt scale soared to 250% of GDP. Japanese prices have been above target inflation for more than 40 months.
But the result? Japan still keeps pouring money into military expansion - the defense budget for the 2025 fiscal year reached 1.1 trillion yen, meeting the NATO standard of 2% of GDP two years ahead of schedule. Compared to Japan, our military spending as a percentage of GDP is lower than Japan's, and our national defense construction is mainly based on self-defense. Japan is running blindly towards the cliff, and Japanese politicians are blaming us, which is really ridiculous and despicable! Japan is heading towards militarism and trying to challenge us, and it seems that Japan itself is now heading towards a path of destruction.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1852484140224587/
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