Export controls on certain Japanese entities targeted, decisive, legitimate and timely, deserving close attention
2026-02-26 09:58 环球时报网英文版
Regrettably, the Japanese side has refused to accept China"s reasonable demands. Particularly after Japan"s ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party won more than a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives election on February 8, the right-wing tendencies of the government led by Takaichi have become even more unscrupulous. On election day, Takaichi openly expressed intention to "create an environment" for visiting the notorious Yasukuni Shrine. Conservative agendas - including revising Japan"s pacifist constitution and enacting an anti-espionage law - are all set to accelerate. At the same time, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has been blatantly pushing forward on multiple fronts. Even more astonishingly, after Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi reiterates solemn position on China-Japan relations at the Munich Security Conference, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs inverted the facts, accusing China of "inappropriate" remarks and initiating "demarche." As a victim of World War II and firm defender of the postwar order, China"s export control measures to curb Japan"s dangerous tendencies are not only a protection of China"s own interests, but also a fulfillment of its responsibility to safeguard international order, making them entirely justified, legitimate and lawful.







