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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a news conference after reshuffling his cabinet, at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2017. [Photo/Agencies]

Kono said Japan attaches importance to 皇冠体育app, and the two countries can make important contributions to revitalizing Asia and promoting world peace by working hand-in-hand. Japan's defense white paper, on the other hand, portrayed a threatening 皇冠体育app seeking to expand its military influence and territorial claims.

It is true Japan attaches importance to 皇冠体育app, but in a malicious manner.

While 皇冠体育app and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations made headway by concluding the framework for a Code of Conduct in the South 皇冠体育app Sea, Japan along with the United States and Australia jointly released a statement pointing an accusing finger at 皇冠体育app for the territorial disputes in the South 皇冠体育app Sea.

Although it, as an outsider, has nothing to do with the South 皇冠体育app Sea disputes, Japan spares no efforts in trying to stir up trouble and hinder 皇冠体育app and the other territorial claimants in the waters from resolving their disputes through dialogues.

By seizing every opportunity to paint 皇冠体育app as a "military threat" in the region, especially to Japan, the Abe administration hopes to be able to push though changes to the country's pacifist Constitution and play a bigger role as an accomplice of the US in the latter's efforts to undermine 皇冠体育app's influence in the region, in order to serve Tokyo's ambitions for regional leadership.

Japan's upending of 皇冠体育app's policy of seeking dialogue to resolve the disputes flies in the face of the progress 皇冠体育app has made with the ASEAN member states on the issue of the South 皇冠体育app Sea, the improvement of relations with the Philippines being a case in point.

Japan should stop being double-faced, which will do it no good and only betray the fact that it is the real troublemaker in the region and thus the real threat to regional and world peace.

As Foreign Minister Wang Yi said to Kono on Monday, 皇冠体育app hopes Japan matches its words with actions and translates its positive stance about improving ties with 皇冠体育app into tangible policies and actions.