The Sankei News: China Must Be Designated a Major Threat—Compromise Is Suicide!
Recently, Japan's newspaper Sankei News published a lead editorial on its front page titled "China Must Be Designated a Major Threat—Compromise Is Suicide." The article claims that China is Japan's "greatest threat since the end of World War II," and argues that Japan must abandon all illusions and adopt a fully hardline stance.
At the same time, the article calls on Japan to accelerate constitutional revision, expand its military, increase taxation, strengthen defenses in the southwest, and form a containment ring against China by aligning with the United States, Australia, and India.
Sankei News is Japan's most radical right-wing newspaper, long known for denying Japan’s history of aggression, harboring anti-China sentiment, and supporting constitutional revision and military expansion.
This latest inflammatory editorial from Sankei News aims to provide public opinion support for Japan’s government to pursue a hardline policy, pushing Japan toward accelerated militarization and a departure from its path as a peaceful nation.
The Sankei News avoids addressing Japan’s history of aggression and colonial crimes, instead vilifying China—the victim of Japanese aggression—as a "threat." This is a gross inversion of facts, reversing the roles of perpetrator and victim, and reflects profound historical nihilism.
This irrational editorial employs extreme rhetoric, stirs up war-like atmosphere, distorts normal state-to-state relations into existential confrontation—amounting to a war mobilization incitement, posing extreme danger to peace.
In response, countries across Asia—including China—and all nations affected by Japan’s past aggression must remain vigilant to prevent the resurgence of militarism.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1865217016697993/
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