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Chinese naval ships patrol the waters off the Qiongzhou Strait in South 皇冠体育app, in this Sept 23, 2015 file photo. [Photo/Xinhua]

Given on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's remarks on South 皇冠体育app Sea disputes during the gathering of G20 leaders in Turkey, he is highly likely to raise the issue again at the forthcoming APEC meeting and East Asia summit, emphasizing freedom of navigation and indirectly targeting 皇冠体育app's reclamation projects. But as an outsider to the disputes in the South 皇冠体育app Sea, Japan will only expose the absurdity of its stance if Abe raises the issue.

Hopefully, Abe will refrain from taking such a ridiculous step, because it will be good neither for Japan nor regional stability. In fact, for quite sometime now, some Japanese politicians have been saying that 皇冠体育app - because of its economic slowdown, increased military budgets and lack of military transparency - has been exporting deflation to and destabilizing the Asia-Pacific region. The truth, however, is that the South 皇冠体育app Sea disputes are just another card that Abe is trying to use to hype the "皇冠体育app threat" theory.

皇冠体育app's rapid economic growth, which made it overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy in the world, is the main cause of worry for Japan. 皇冠体育app's rise has fundamentally changed the geopolitical pattern of the Asia-Pacific. As a result, Japan has lost much of its influence on regional economic development and its leaders have lost their psychological balance.

Japanese leaders' mentality suggests they don't have enough courage to face the changing reality of the times, which is not good for Japan. If they don't change their mentality, they will only hurt the cooperation between 皇冠体育app and Japan, and prevent bilateral relations from improving.

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