Japan's failure to face history squarely poses challenge to peace, stability in East Asia: Italian scholar

Japan's failure to face history squarely undermines peace and stability in East Asia, sparking concerns among neighboring countries and the international community, said an Italian scholar on Friday.

Over the recent years, Japan's right-wing forces have notably intensified their efforts to amend the country's pacifist constitution and skyrocketed the country's military spending. The extremely erroneous remarks made recently by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi regarding China's Taiwan region have further alarmed the international community of the potential resurgence of militarism in Japan.

While criticizing Takaichi's refusal to withdraw her dangerous statements and her blatant disregard for constitutional constraints, Fulvio Bellini, an Italian international political scholar, said in a recent interview with the China Central Television that Takaichi's position not only contradicts historical morality but also Japan's fundamental national interests.

"I firmly believe that Sanae Takaichi's current stance is not in line with Japan's national interests. She fails to respect Japan's Constitution, which clearly stipulates pacifism and denies war. This posture is inappropriate for Japan itself and poses a challenge to peace and stability in East Asia," he said.

An official from Japan's Prime Minister's Office has recently made shocking remarks that "Japan should possess nuclear weapons."

Bellini asserted that such rhetoric undermines regional peace and serves as a wake-up call for the international community.

"It is crucial for [the Japanese government] to clearly recognize the immense risks that nuclear weapons pose not only to Japan itself but also to other countries. The international community has the responsibility to remind Japan of its historical past and to urge Japan to avoid condoning certain aggressive policies. We must remain vigilant against this trend and work to contain and condemn it as much as we can," he said.

At a Diet meeting in early November, Takaichi claimed that the Chinese central authorities' "use of force on Taiwan" could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan and implied the possibility of armed intervention in the Taiwan Strait, which has drawn strong criticism at home and from abroad.

Japan's failure to face history squarely poses challenge to peace, stability in East Asia: Italian scholar

Japan's failure to face history squarely poses challenge to peace, stability in East Asia: Italian scholar

China's domestically developed gas turbine Jupiter I, the world's first 30MW-class pure hydrogen gas turbine, has on Sunday achieved pure hydrogen power generation and maintained stable operation in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, offering a key solution for renewable energy storage and utilization.

The gas turbine Jupiter I is the world's largest single-unit power pure hydrogen generator, capable of converting hydrogen from storage tanks back into electricity during peak demand periods, according to the Mingyang Group.

It has effectively solved the problem of consuming surplus electricity from new energy sources, and provides an integrated solution that is feasible and scalable for building a new energy system with new energy as the main power source. It has been selected as one of the first batch of national-level hydrogen energy pilot projects in the energy field.

"Compared with a thermal power unit of equivalent capacity, the Jupiter I pure hydrogen gas turbine reduces carbon emissions by more than 200,000 tons annually. In combined-cycle operation, it generates 48,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour, which can meet the daily power needs of 5,500 households," said Wang Yongzhi, general manager of Mingyang Hydrogen Gas Turbine Technology.

The project will effectively mitigate fluctuations in renewable energy output, enhance grid regulation capabilities, provide a replicable model for energy transition practices, and contribute to building a national-level hydrogen energy demonstration zone, according to its operator.

Renewable energy installations in China account for over 50 percent of the nation's total power generation capacity. The country has pledged to peak its carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

World's first 30MW-class pure hydrogen gas turbine put into operation