Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has warned Japan that China would not allow any country to “reverse the course of history”, as Beijing and Tokyo remain locked in an increasingly tense dispute over contested islands in the East China Sea.
“We will safeguard the victory of World War II and the postwar international order, and will not allow anyone to reverse the course of history,” Mr Li said on Wednesday at the opening of China’s rubber stamp parliament.
Sino-Japanese relations have deteriorated over the past 18 months since Japan bought several of the Senkaku Islands – which China claims and calls the Diaoyu – from their private Japanese owner.