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Abe veers closely to an 'act of war' against China: PLA general

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  • 2013-11-12
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  • 08:48 (GMT+8)
An anti-Japanese demonstration in China, Sept. 18 (Photo/CNS)
An anti-Japanese demonstration in China, Sept. 18 (Photo/CNS)
Drones are not the only weapon China has to defend its territory over the East China Sea, said PLA major general Wang Gongguang in a op-ed piece for the Party-run Global Times.
Wang was responding to recent actions from Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe, who the general said has provoked China through increasing the defense budget, launching joint exercises with the US in amphibious warfare, allowing the deployment of US MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to Japan and monitoring the movement of Chinese warships in the open sea. He also criticized Abe for trying to form an anti-Chinese alliance in East Asia by visiting nations which have territorial disputes with China over the South China Sea.
Abe recently authorized Japan Air Self Defense Force fighters to engage and shoot down foreign unmanned aerial vehicles crossing into Japan's air space.
The name Izumo given to Japan's new helicopter destroyer has as well infuriated the Chinese people, Wang said. It is the name applied to a Japanese cruiser which flew in the bombing of Shanghai during the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Wang warned Abe to change his attitude towards China before it is too late.
It is time for Japanese policy makers to understand the meaning of an "act of war," Wang said. Using examples such as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the attack of Pearl Harbor, Wang said that Japan itself suffered from the war it waged against both China and the United States during World War II. If Japan shoots down Chinese drones over the disputed Diaoyutai (Senkaku islands), it will be considered an "act of war" as Wang pointed out.
China has no intention to become the dominant force of the Asia-Pacific region, and Japan should not act out of this fear, Wang said. Instead, it should act through political dialogue to settle its territorial dispute with China over the Diaoyu islands, or at least not escalate tensions.
Tokyo would never be able to defeat Beijing in a full-scale war, Wang said. Once a Chinese drone is shot down over the islands, China will have to respond by shooting down the Japanese fighters. The PLA army will not hesitate because it has the backing of long-standing Japanese resentment which has been passed to the majority of China's new generation and simmers in the old, Wang said.
Japan ought to think about how to restore its traditional friendship with China, established when Kakuei Tanaka, the former Japanese prime minister, visited Beijing in 1972, Wang said. The country should also apologize for the atrocities the Japanese soldiers committed against Chinese citizens during World War II. Preventing an "act of war" should be considered a principle for Abe in dealing with China.
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