If any Japanese politician, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, wants Japan to develop nuclear weapons, that will be the country's "moment of annihilation," warned Victor Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization, in an interview with CGTN. 

Takaichi was recently considering reviewing the country's long-standing Three Non-Nuclear Principles, hinting at the possibility of abandoning them, while senior officials have even claimed that they do not rule out the introduction of nuclear submarines.

The Three Non-Nuclear Principles, not possessing, not producing and not permitting introduction of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory, were first declared in the Diet, Japan's parliament, by then Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in 1967 and viewed as a national credo.

"Japan committed all crimes of atrocities against humanities," said Gao. "All Chinese people and people throughout the world will never allow Japan to develop weapons of mass destruction."