(2 Dec 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MOFA Briefing Spokesperson: Lin Jian Date: 2 December 2025 Duration: 05 min 47 sec ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing - 02 December 2025 1. On November 24, Japan’s permanent representative to the United Nations wrote to the UN Secretary-General stating that China’s claim that Japan would exercise its right of self-defense even without being subjected to an armed attack is incorrect; that Japan’s basic defense policy is the passive defense strategy of exclusively defense-