The newly-built latest guard ship of Japan has recently been in the spotlight of the world media.
A Canadian radio on March 16 said that Japan launched a highly functional submarine-hunter for the first time in nearly 30 years, and referred to Tokyo's concern over the Chinese submarines now in operation in the waters near Japan proper.
The March 11th issue of South China Morning Post, a newspaper of Chinese Hong Kong, elaborating on the news, quoted a professor at a Japanese university as saying that the "principal targets of Japan are China and north Korea and China poses a more serious potential threat to Japan".
The guard ship is a latest warship capable of sensing and digitizing the noise from propeller vane of a sub hundreds of kilometres away and confirming even its type and nationality. So, specialists call it a "submarine-hunter" and a "special spy ship".
The warship deserves the attention of regional countries for its emergence as a new lever in carrying out naval and underwater operations in the Pacific.
Japan, which possesses the greatest naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region second to the US, is still putting spurs to strengthening the naval supremacy under the pretext of threats from neighbouring countries.
Since 2018, Japan has pushed forward with the building of 22 new escort ships whose main mission is to guard and monitor in the East Sea of China. It will reportedly set out to build a patrol craft from this year so as to set up a complete system for observing the East Sea of China by the 2030s.
All the facts show that the military operations of Japan's naval forces are obviously focused on the area west of the archipelago.
The supposition that Japan will offer the data gathered by the "submarine-hunter" to the seabed observation network set up by the US and the ship will be deployed in the base near the waters in dispute with China further is touching off greater concern of the regional community.
The "theory of potential threat from China" heard quite often in Japan, in the wake of the "story of threat from north Korea," now comes to be an oft-repeated pretext for building up its military forces.
The reality reveals the absurdity and duplicity of Japan trumpeting about the "new era and new development of Japan-China relations."
KCNA
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