The Chinese Foreign Ministry warned on Monday that military and security cooperation between the United States and Japan should not target any third country or endanger regional peace and development after US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth described Japan as an indispensable country in combating "Chinese aggression".

"By calling China a threat and using it as a pretext, the US has been instigating ideological antagonism, stoking division and confrontation, and even inciting certain countries to be the cannon fodder of the US supremacy," Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Monday.

He emphasized at a daily news briefing that regional countries need to stay on high alert and guard against such practices.

As this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Guo said Japan particularly needs to learn from its history and be prudent in military and security areas.

He reiterated that the Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair and how to resolve the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese people that no one can interfere in.

Guo urged certain people in the US to give up the illusion of using Taiwan to contain China, abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiques with concrete actions and honor the commitments made by the US on the Taiwan question.

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Tokyo should abide by the principles of the four political documents between China and Japan, remain cautious in words and deeds on the Taiwan question and refrain from sending wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, he added.