This is not simply a consideration of review of wording, but an attempt to create room to dismantle Japan"s postwar nuclear policy restrictions. It is an attempt to cover up the real intention, Lü Chao, a research fellow at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

　　Lü said that the so-called "review of wording" could become the first step toward gradually relaxing nuclear policy constraints, eventually hollowing out the non-nuclear policy that Japan has maintained for decades, adding that there should be no room for compromise on such an issue.

　　"If even the key wording of this principle can be reinterpreted, the actual binding force of the Three Non-Nuclear Principles will be further weakened," the expert said.

　　China"s Foreign Ministry has previously stressed that the possession of nuclear weapons is not an issue on which Japan can "allow discussion" if it wants to. Japan is a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and therefore has a bound duty under international law to not receive, manufacture, acquire or transfer nuclear weapons. There is no room for negotiation, a spokesperson said.

　　Takaichi"s moves toward revising the Three Non-Nuclear Principles has also already triggered many concerns among some groups in Japan for some time. Japanese Communist Party lawmaker Yoshiko Kira previously criticized the move, saying that instead of revising the principles against the wishes of atomic bomb survivors, Japan should join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which she said was the responsibility of the only country to have suffered wartime atomic bombings, according to local media reports.