What Does China Mean When It Warns of Japanese “Neo-Militarism”?

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At this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi publicly pushed back against Beijing’s increasingly harsh criticism of Japan. He remarked that it was strange for China possessing a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons and strategic bombers to accuse Japan of embracing “new militarism.” The distinction in wording, however, deserves closer attention. The term [...] The post What Does China Mean When It Warns of Japanese “Neo-Militarism”? appeared first on Modern Diplomacy .