BEIJING, Aug. 15 -- "We urge the US to abandon geopolitical calculations, uphold a correct historical view of WWII, and join the international community in safeguarding the post-WWII international order, so as to strive for a more peaceful future for humanity," said Senior Colonel Jiang Bin, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, at a press briefing on Friday.
The spokesperson of the US State Department recently said that 80 years ago, the US and Japan concluded a devastating war in the Pacific. For 80 years, the US and Japan have stood shoulder to shoulder to safeguard peace and prosperity in the Pacific. These comments were also posted by the US Embassy in China.
In response to such remarks, the Chinese defense spokesperson sharply pointed out that during WWII, the Japanese fascists committed heinous crimes and inflicted untold sufferings on peoples around the world, including the Americans.
However, according to the spokesperson, the US seems to have "amnesia" about this history. Especially, this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Therefore, the spokesperson seriously warned that whitewashing Japan's aggression and war crimes is a grave affront to the historical justice, and hurts the peoples of countries once suffered from Japanese invasion.