BEIJING – A Chinese defense spokesperson on Thursday said that Japan has laid bare its ambition for military expansion.<\/p>\n
Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense, made the remarks in response to a media query regarding Japan’s recent announcement of the deployment of long-range missiles<\/a> with “enemy base strike capabilities,” which analysts said was clearly targeted at China.<\/p>\n Japan’s reckless and dangerously accelerated push for remilitarization<\/a> is spiraling out of control, Zhang said, calling the move a complete betrayal of the country’s pacifist Constitution and exclusively defense-oriented principle.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Japan\u2019s remilitarization harms region<\/a><\/p>\n The proliferation of neo-militarism<\/a> in Japan has become a real menace, Zhang added.<\/p>\n “Should an evil tiger be unleashed from its cage, it would inevitably wreak havoc far and wide, and plunge the Japanese people into an abyss of disaster,” the spokesperson said, urging the international community to stay on high alert against it.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Concern aired over Japan’s missile move<\/a><\/p>\n