China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular briefing that after Beijing criticised comments by Japan's defence minister Koizumi and Tokyo's defence ministry called China's claims "not factual", Japan is evading discussion of its militarist aggression. She accused Tokyo of packaging overseas deployments as collective self‑defence, relabelling strengthened offensive capabilities as "counterstrike" development, masking lethal-weapons exports through equipment and technology coop

China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular briefing that after Beijing criticised comments by Japan's defence minister Koizumi and Tokyo's defence ministry called China's claims "not factual", Japan is evading discussion of its militarist aggression. She accused Tokyo of packaging overseas deployments as collective self‑defence, relabelling strengthened offensive capabilities as "counterstrike" development, masking lethal-weapons exports through equipment and technology cooperation, and warned that the more Japan conceals, the greater the need for international vigilance.