China denounces Japanese military strategy

[alp227]

Source: BBC

China has denounced Japan's new national security strategy, accusing it of military expansion.

Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said in a statement that the move would increase regional tensions, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Earlier this week, Japan said it would buy advanced equipment including drones and amphibious vehicles.

It comes as Tokyo is embroiled in a bitter row with Beijing over islands in the East China Sea that both claim.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25475418

[Deep13]

1. C'mon, when has Japan's military ever caused China any problems?

Really? 1937 to 1945? Millions of casualties? Rape of Nanking?

Never mind.

[Bonobo]

2. As timely as Commodore Perry's incursion into Edo! nt

[Deep13]

8. That was over a century ago.

WW2 is still in living memory. So I agree with what you literally wrote even though you mean it facetiously.

I study the Middle Ages, so anything since electricity is recent to me.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. Don't forget 1898 and the bombing of Shanghai in 1933

Or, and the Mukden Train incident where Japan took Manchuria. . .and the Marco polo Bridge incident which opned the door for the taking of Tianjin and Beijing.

No, Japan has never done shit to China. Just ask my wife's great grandmother who the Japanese army gang raped and left for dead in a roadside ditch in 1939 outside of Changzhou.

[rpannier]

3. Considering China's behavior over the last decade that's laughable

They claim portions of Korea are really part of China
They lay claim to Japanese islands
They claim Philippine and Vietnamese waters

Their spokesman can rot

[Sand Wind]

7. +1

[okaawhatever]

5. Yeah China, how dare they expand. Just because you're ramping up your military at lighting speed.nt