Trump agitated Xi by talking about Japan’s rearmament: Report
US President Donald Trump reportedly agitated his Chinese counterpart by talking about the rearmament of Japan during his visit to the country.
According to a report by the Financial Times, during their Beijing summit in mid-May, Trump talked to Xi about Japan’s rearmament.
Xi became agitated and raised his voice, the FT reported on Monday. In a heated tone, Xi strongly criticized Japan's increased military spending.
He slammed Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for her re-militarization push.
The Chinese leader referred to legal documents that ended World War II, banning Japanese militarism.
Xi pointed out to Trump that the rearmament of the “vanquished nation” of Japan is illegal under international law.
“A situation where [we] overlook Japan’s rearmament will not come,” Xi asserted, rephrasing Beijing’s resolve to not allow a revival of Japanese militarism.
On September 2, 1945, a Japanese delegation on behalf of Emperor Hirohito officially signed the surrender documents to US General Douglas MacArthur on board the USS Missouri, harbored in Tokyo Bay.
Hirohito, who led the country during the rise of Japanese militarism, was one of the longest ruling monarchs in the world, reigning over Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
Prior to the Japanese surrender, its forces had committed numerous atrocities against the people in the occupied territories, including China, Korea, what was then Malaya, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
One of the crimes of the Japanese military was wartime sexual slavery.
Some 200,000 “comfort women” from the occupied countries were forced to work in Japanese military brothels.
Till this day, some of the raped women survivors are still asking for an apology and compensation from the Japanese.
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