China denounces PH for pushing for militarily active Japan

The idea of Japan’s army actively helping neighbor countries doesn’t sit well with another country that twice went into war with it. And so China criticized the Philippines when President Benigno Aquino III spoke in support of removing Japan’s constitutional restrictions to be able to help its allies that are under attack. The Philippines and Japan are both locked in territorial disputes with China. But while it was Beijing’s increasing aggressiveness in the region that that prompted neighbors to bolster ties, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying criticized Manila for seeking “to promote the international influence” of the Japanese army.

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