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'Containing China' a Japanese strategy

Draft of Tokyo's new defense program calls for more early warning and surveillance.

Japan is trying to justify attempts to break away from its pacifist Constitution and build up itsmilitary by fanning the so-called China threatexperts said after Japan released the final draft ofits national security strategy on Wednesday.



In the draftJapan vowed countermeasures against what it calls "China's attempts to change thestatus quo with forcein the East China and South China seasaccording to the summary of thedraft issued by Japanese news agency Jiji Press.

Lu Yaodongdirector of the department of Japanese diplomacy of the Institute of JapaneseStudies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciencessaid the strategy included "containingChinain the core missions of Japan's new National Security Councilestablished a week ago.

"The Abe Cabinet is now bold enough to label China as a strategic target because it hasharvested enough excuses from tensions over China's Diaoyu Islands and China's newlyestablished air defense identification zone," Lu said.

Beijing said on Wednesday that it is unreasonable for Tokyo to say that China's decision toestablish the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone last month is changing the statusquo.

"It is not othersbut Japan that made provocationsin the East China SeaForeign Ministryspokesman Hong Lei said.

The draft of Japan's National Defense Program Guidelines outlines military policy for the nextdecade and calls for Japan to set up intelligenceearly warning and surveillance activity todefend Japanese sea and air territory.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a meeting with security experts on Wednesday thatthe two pacts — to be approved at a cabinet meeting on Dec 17 — will be "historic documentsthat shape our country's national security".

The draft also said Japan will review its self-imposed ban on weapons exportsa moveBloomberg said shows that "Japan will seek to make its arms industry competitive globally".

Shi Yongminga researcher of Asia-Pacific studies at the China Institute of InternationalRelationssaid Japan is using China to eliminate self-imposed legislative restrictions on revisingits pacifist Constitution and expanding its military.

"Japan is projecting China as an enormous threat and campaigning itself as a 'major victimtobluff people both domestically and overseas," Shi said.

Kyodo News Agency reported on Wednesday that the Abe administration will implement adefense program next year covering the next five years.

Japan's annual defense budget grew this year after a decade of decline.

Tokyo plans to set up an amphibious unit designed to take back the remote islands in case ofinvasionand also plans to procure unmanned surveillance planes and establish an E-2C earlywarning aircraft unit at the Naha base in southwestern Japanaccording to the latest defenseplans.

Abe's bid to stoke Japan's slumbering economy "has given him political capital to push his long-cherished aim of also rehabilitating Japan's militarywhich under the post-war pacifistConstitution is restricted to defense only", Agence France-Presse said.

By showing muscle in the islands dispute and making right wing remarksAbe is makingprogress in lifting the constitutional banssaid Liu Jiangyongan expert on Japanese studies atTsinghua University.

Liu warned that "Japan is also siding with countries including the United States and Australia tostep up pressure on China".

"Japan is seeking stronger support from outside the country to speed up a military buildupstrivefor more influence in the region and share more burdens in Washington's rebalancing strategy,"Shi said.

Japan will also bolster its overall capability to respond to missile attacks as the DemocraticPeople's Republic of Korea improves its ballistic missile technologyits defense guideline draftsaid.


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