by Xinhua Writer Zhu Feng
TOKYO, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Japan's government approved a defense white paper on Tuesday, with a large portion of the document focusing on China's normal and legal maritime activities in the East and South China Seas.
The 480-page white paper devoted 30 pages to China, preaching the so-called "China military threat," especially China's "military threat on the sea."
Meanwhile, it endorsed the U.S. "Asia-Pacific Rebalance" strategy and Japan's newly-passed security bill, which allows Japan's Self Defense Forces to fight abroad even if Japan itself is not under attack.
This is nothing new for the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that has time and again tried to trick the Japanese public into following its rightist agenda.
The white paper, on the one hand, aims to rebuild Japan, which brutalized its Asian neighbors during World War II, as a military power under the pretext of "China threat."
For a country which is reluctant to face up to its ignominious wartime history squarely, its attempts to beef up military power will pose a serious threat to world peace.
The Abe administration is good at meddling in the South China Sea issue under the guise of "positive pacifism," which actually calls for "military contributions" to deliver world peace and security.
The real purpose of the document is to tarnish China's image, contain China's peaceful rise, and offset its growing international influence, particularly its clout in the Asia Pacific.
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