Japan Calls China A Greater Threat to Itself Than Other Nations

Because it's true:

China’s growing military might has replaced North Korean belligerence as the main security threat to Japan, Tokyo’s annual defense review indicated on Thursday, despite signs that Pyongyang could have nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.

The document’s security assessment on China comes after a section on Japan’s ally, the United States, the first time Beijing has achieved second place in the Defence White Paper and pushing North Korea into third position.

Russia, deemed by Japan as its primary threat during the Cold War, was in fourth place.
“The reality is that China is rapidly increasing military spending, and so people can grasp that we need more pages,” Defence Minister Taro Kono said at a media briefing.

“China is deploying air and sea assets in the Western Pacific and through the Tsushima Strait into the Sea of Japan with greater frequency.”

China’s Foreign Ministry expressed displeasure with the report. ...

(Sidebar: I'm sure.)

The Defence White Paper said Chinese patrols in waters and skies near Japanese territory are “a national security concern.”

The paper downgraded fellow U.S. ally, South Korea, which recently pulled out of an intelligence sharing pact with Japan amid a dispute over their shared wartime history. That could weaken efforts to contain North Korean threats, analysts said.

This China: 

Shock over a bloody mob attack in Hong Kong of a Falun Gong practitioner has rippled to New York City as nations gathered for the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

At the United Nations Plaza on Sept. 25, Falun Gong practitioners held up placards and banners in Chinese and English to speak for their fellow practitioner who was seen bleeding profusely from the head the previous day. They pleaded for a stop to brutality against Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and for international support.

“My heart aches a great deal, I really want to tell the world’s people and to stop this persecution, so that practitioners will no longer experience any bloody incidents like this,” New York-based Falun Gong practitioner Chen Biying told The Epoch Times.

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Olsi Jazexhi admits now he was hopelessly naïve.

The Albanian-Canadian historian doubted reports that China systematically repressed its Uyghur Muslim minority, believing the West had concocted the allegations to whip up jihadi fervour against Beijing.

So this August he joined a stage-managed tour for foreign journalists of Xinjiang province, where the minority group is concentrated.

The excursion didn’t quite work out as planned.

Olsi expected to debunk the narrative of widespread human-rights abuses. But in a strange tale of propaganda gone wrong, he instead found himself stunned by “concentration camps” where Muslims were banned from praying, forced to speak Mandarin and held for a year or more of Communist indoctrination.

(Sidebar: dude, really?)