Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on March 8 that the future of China-Japan relations hinges on Japan's choice. He made the remarks at a press conference on the sidelines of the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress.
Last year marked the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. However, the incumbent leader of Japan even claimed that a Taiwan contingency would constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan to exercise the so-called right of collective self-defense, he said.
"We urge the Japanese side to seriously reflect on and repent for its wrongdoing, simply retract Prime Minister Takaichi's erroneous remarks, stop playing with fire and avoid going further down the wrong path," a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said.
In remembrance of history, we've launched a podcast series featuring excerpts from renowned wartime memoirs. This is the second episode. Today, we bring you passages from chapter two of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.
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