By Zhou Yongsheng

November 17, 2015

"Given on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's remarks on South China Sea disputes during the gathering of G20 leaders in Turkey, he is highly likely to raise the issue again at the forthcoming APEC meeting and East Asia summit, emphasizing freedom of navigation and indirectly targeting China's reclamation projects. But as an outsider to the disputes in the South China Sea, Japan will only expose the absurdity of its stance if Abe raises the issue.

Hopefully, Abe will refrain from taking such a ridiculous step, because it will be good neither for Japan nor regional stability. In fact, for quite sometime now, some Japanese politicians have been saying that China - because of its economic slowdown, increased military budgets and lack of military transparency - has been exporting deflation to and destabilizing the Asia-Pacific region. The truth, however, is that the South China Sea disputes are just another card that Abe is trying to use to hype the 'China threat' theory."

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