The future of China-Japan relations hinges on Japan's choice, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday. 

Last year marked the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Wang noted that in such a milestone year, Japan should have reflected on its past, including the atrocities of its aggression and colonization of Taiwan. However, a sitting leader in Japan actually claimed that "emergency in Taiwan" would constitute a "survival crisis" for Japan, and could trigger the so-called right to collective self-defense, Wang said.

He stressed that the exercise of the right to self-defense must be premised on being under armed attack.  

"Let me ask: Taiwan affairs are purely China's internal affairs, what right does Japan have to interfere? What right does Japan have to exercise the right to self-defense in case something happens in China's Taiwan region? Does the so-called right to collective self-defense mean that Japan intends to hollow out its pacifist constitution which renounces the right to belligerency? Recalling that the Japanese militarists used the excuse of a 'survival crisis' to launch wars of aggression, people in China and in other Asian countries cannot but ask with great vigilance and concern: Where exactly is Japan heading?" said Wang.

This year marks another 80th anniversary – the 80th anniversary of the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Eighty years ago, the judges from 11 countries concluded more than two and a half years of trial with extensive irrefutable evidence that laid bare the heinous crimes of the Japanese militarists.

The Tokyo Trials were a judgment on human conscience and a verdict for history's justice, Wang said, adding that it is his hope that the people in Japan can see clearly and not allow anyone to overreach itself and repeat the past mistakes today. A growing China and the 1.4 billion Chinese people will never allow anyone to speak up for colonization, or overturn the verdict on aggression, he added.