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China: Japan has no bargaining room over nuclear obligations

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Monday that Japan would not rule out any options as it considers whether to acquire nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered submarines as part of revisions to the country's key security documents. When asked for comment on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that Japan is a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and that there is no room for bargaining.

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