A Chinese envoy said on Wednesday that Japan is not qualified at all for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Japanese militarism has not been thoroughly reckoned with and its right-wing forces are pushing for remilitarisation, said Sun Lei, the charge d'affaires of China's permanent mission to the UN.

"A country that shows no remorse for its historical crimes, that violates basic norms of international relations, that challenges the outcomes of World War II and blatantly tramples on the post-war international order, cannot shoulder the responsibility of safeguarding international peace and security, cannot gain the trust of the international community, and has fundamentally no qualifications to seek permanent membership on the Security Council," he said.

Japanese right-wing forces have vigorously whitewashed Japan's history of aggression and manifestly denied the historical crimes of the Nanjing Massacre, forced recruitment of sex slaves and forced labour, Sun said.

They have pushed to revise history textbooks in an attempt to rewrite Japan's history of aggression, and several current Japanese government officials have paid homage at Yasukuni Shrine, the spiritual symbol of militarism, showing reverence for Class-A war criminals, he noted.

From Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous remarks on Taiwan and her threat on the use of force against China, to senior Japanese officials openly advocating for possessing nuclear weapons, to pushing to revise the three national security documents and clamouring to amend the three non-nuclear principles, these actions fully expose the sinister intentions of Japanese right-wing forces to promote remilitarisation and attempt to revive militarism, posing new threats to regional and global peace and security, said Sun. (Xinhua)