PLA Daily made the comments in an editorial marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
It pointed to China’s long fight in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which started in 1931 and ended in 1945.
“For a long time, the Chinese battlefield pinned down and fought against the main forces of Japanese militarism, playing a decisive role in the complete destruction of the Japanese invaders,” the editorial said.
It said that, strategically, Chinese had supported the operations of the Allied Forces and complemented the actions on the European and Pacific battlefields, and made contributions to victory in the anti-fascist war and world peace.
Eighty years on, the People’s Liberation Army newspaper warned that there were “grave threats” posed by unilateralism and hegemony.
