China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers on their armoured vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft artillery roll to Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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China has accused Donald Trump's administration of putting regional stability in East Asia at risk following remarks by the President's defense secretary that a U.S. commitment to defend Japanese territory applies to an island group that China claims.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang has called on Trump's administration to avoid discussion of the issue and reasserted China's claim of sovereignty over the tiny uninhabited islands, known in Japanese as the Senkaku and Chinese as Diaoyu.
The 1960 US-Japan treaty is "a product of the Cold War, which should not impair China's territorial sovereignty and legitimate rights," Lu was quoted as saying in a statement posted on the ministry's website.
"We urge the U.S. side to take a responsible attitude, stop making wrong remarks on the issue involving the Diaoyu islands' sovereignty, and avoid making the issue more complicated and bringing instability to the regional situation," he added.
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WNU Editor: On the issue of China's territorial claims, the Western press focuses on what is the Trump administration doing, their actions, their military deployments, and what are the statements coming from the White House and its allies throughout Asia. But what the Western press should also focus on is on what China is doing, their actions, their threats, and their red lines. To say that I am worried on what is now coming out from China is an understatement. I first noticed this sense of hard-core nationalism on my last trip to China (about 2 and a half years ago), and I have been told by my Chinese friends and contacts that it has gotten far worse since then. Bottom line .... everyone I know in Asia are saying the same thing .... they believe that there are many in the Chinese leadership who are looking for a fight to assert their territorial claims .... and quoting Trump adviser Steve Bannon .... probably within 5 years. I hope everyone is wrong .... but tensions are sky-high in Asia right now, and all roads lead to Beijing.
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Bannon is wrong: it will be much earlier. With 8 years of Obama retreat Chinese are so accustom of that way, they think everything will be easy with America, even war. America cannot start a war, that's unconstitutional, but China can. With all domestic problem Trump has, they could test America on this way.
A conscripted military whose ranks are filled with the first and only born sons of some 20 million Chinese families. I think the Chinese may be a lot more casualty averse than we might think.
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