BEIJING, May 28 -- "If these actions still qualify as 'exclusively defense-oriented', then there would be no such word as 'offensive' in dictionary," said Senior Colonel Jiang Bin, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense (MND), at a press briefing on Thursday.

According to reports, recent media disclosures of the draft of the Sanae Takaichi administration's first Defense White Paper reveal that it frames China's activities in the Pacific as a "security threat" and expresses vigilance. Additionally, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary said that Japan's exclusively defense-oriented policy remains unchanged, so China's criticism regarding neo-militarism is completely off the mark.

"What Japan does contradicts what it says. The more it tries to whitewash the inconsistency, the more obvious it gets," said the spokesperson.

He stressed that in recent years, the Japanese government has sharply hiked its defense budget, developed and deployed offensive weapons, eased restrictions on exporting lethal weapons, pushed to revise the pacifist Constitution, clamored to be a war-capable nation, and even touted abandoning the three non-nuclear principles in recent years.

"The Japanese militarism once brought catastrophic disasters to the world and to Japan itself. Now the gray rhino of a remilitarized Japan is gathering speed, causing inevitable concerns and alarming many countries," noted the spokesperson.

"The international community must see through Japan's 'deceptive diplomacy' and 'victim portrait', and work together to contain Japan's neo-militarism and safeguard peace and stability in the region and beyond," added the spokesperson.