Beijing. July 29. INTERFAX - Chinese-Russian defense cooperation does not threaten third countries, it pursues the goal of maintaining peace and tranquility on a global scale, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China Tan Kefei.
"Sino-Russian defense cooperation is based on non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-targeting against third parties. It is aimed at maintaining peace and stability in the region and around the world and does not pose a threat to any country," he said, commenting on the Defense White Paper distributed by Japan.
It claims that China has become "the most serious strategic challenge to Japan in history," and that the joint operations of China and Russia at sea and in the airspace around Japan "threaten peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait."
Tang Kefei stressed that "Taiwan is the Taiwan of China, and the principle of "one China" is connected with the political basis of Sino-Japanese relations."
The official noted that Japan "bears a serious historical responsibility to the Chinese people in the Taiwan issue." In recent years, it has constantly interfered in China's internal affairs, violated the basic norms of international relations, "destroyed the political basis of Sino-Japanese relations and aggravated tensions in the Taiwan Strait, which is extremely wrong and dangerous."
