(MENAFN) China on Friday stated that neither the Chinese people nor the international community "will allow" Japan to "go back to the path of militarism, violate its commitment to peaceful development and disrupt post war international order."

"Such attempts will only end in failure," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning declared during a regular news briefing in Beijing.

Mao emphasized that after World War II, Japan, as a defeated nation, was required to be "completely disarmed and not to maintain such industries as it would enable the country to rearm for war." She argued that in recent years, Japan has "kept easing the restrictions and seeking military buildup," citing increases in its defense budget "for 13 consecutive years," the removal of the ban on collective self-defense, and eased arms export restrictions, including exporting "deadly weapons while claiming it hopes to build a world without nuclear weapons."

"Japan is actually strengthening cooperation on extended deterrence, and even seeking to revise its three non-nuclear principles, to open the door for enabling nuclear sharing arrangements," Mao added.

Beijing’s warning comes amid reports that Japan recently exported domestically produced Patriot surface-to-air missile interceptors to the US for the first time under its eased export restrictions, according to sources cited by reports.

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