A Chinese defense spokesperson on Wednesday voiced strong opposition to Japan's hyping of the so-called "China threat" and its interference in China's internal affairs.
China on Monday urged Japan to draw lessons from history, in a bid to exercise prudence in security issues as this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
The Chinese side is fully committed to the establishment of a nuclear weapon-free zone in Southeast Asia, and has made clear China's willingness to take the lead in signing the protocol, said a Chinese defense spokesperson on Monday.
The response of Chinese military aircraft to the Japanese planes repeatedly conducting close reconnaissance in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone was entirely reasonable and professional, a Chinese defense spokesman said on Sunday morning.
The Chinese PLA Southern Theater Command organized its naval and air forces to conduct a combat-readiness patrol in the territorial waters and airspace of China's Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas on Thursday.
"The Chinese PLA Eastern Theater Command (ETC) carried out military exercise code-named 'Strait Thunder 2025A' in the middle and southern sea areas of the Taiwan Strait on April 2," said Army Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson for the Chinese PLA ETC, in a written statement on Wednesday.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on Tuesday started to conduct joint exercises around Taiwan Island, said a spokesperson.
"On February 20, two C-208 aircraft and one N-22 aircraft of the Philippine Air Force illegally intruded into the airspace near the islands and reefs of China's Nansha Qundao. The Chinese PLA Southern Theater Command monitored the whole process, warned and expelled them," said a spokesperson for Chinese PLA Southern Theater Command.
China on Friday firmly opposed a U.S. report amplifying the so-called "China threat" and urged relevant U.S. politicians to cease smearing and suppressing China.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday spoke to reporters about the South China Sea issue in response to questions while attending annual ASEAN Plus foreign ministers' meetings here.
China's position on the "2016 Arbitral Award on the South China Sea" is consistent and clear. The "award" is nothing but a piece of waste paper that is illegal, null and void, and non-binding, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said here Saturday.
China on Thursday reaffirmed its support for a nuclear-weapon-free Southeast Asia after Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said China would sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready.
The Chinese mainland on Wednesday denounced Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities for defaming upcoming commemorations of China's victory over Japanese aggression in the 1940s, stating that the move "fully exposes their disgraceful nature."
Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te's so-called "10 lectures on unity" are a patchwork of fallacious "Taiwan independence" rhetoric full of lies, a mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday.
A spokesman on Wednesday criticized the DPP administration in Taiwan for threatening Chinese Kuomintang veterans who have been invited to participate in events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
No matter how many "exercises" the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities conduct, it cannot change the inevitable failure of "Taiwan independence," a Chinese mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday.