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Chinese Communist Party’s ‘chauvinism’ a threat to peace: Japanese counterpart
- Japan’s Communist Party is distancing itself from the CCP ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tokyo this year
- The JCP condemned human rights abuses and ‘hegemonism’ in the East China Sea and South China Sea
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The Japanese Communist Party has moved to distance itself from its erstwhile ideological ally in Beijing, criticising the Chinese Communist Party’s “great-power chauvinism” and accusing it of committing human rights abuses and being a threat to regional peace.
The JCP used its five-day convention in Atami, southwest of Tokyo, to redraw its party platform for the first time in 16 years, with the changes designed to differentiate it from the Chinese party.
The revised platform, unveiled on Saturday, is predictably critical of the present Japanese government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but attracted attention for its strongly worded condemnation of the CCP.
The position paper said China’s “great-power chauvinism and hegemonism” relating to its activities in the East China Sea and South China Sea, as well as in other parts of the Asia-Pacific region, have become “an adverse current to world peace and progress”.
Kazuo Shii, the head of the party, addressed the convention on this issue. “The Chinese leadership’s mistake is extremely serious. That action does not deserve the name of the Communist Party,” he said.
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