SpaceWar.com reports: “Beijing on Monday warned the United States and Japan to ‘stop creating imaginary enemies’ after the countries lashed out against China’s actions in the South China Sea in Tokyo talks.

‘We strongly urge the US and Japan to immediately stop interfering in China’s internal affairs and stop creating imaginary enemies,’ foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.

Following talks in the Japanese capital on Sunday, the US and the hosts slammed Beijing’s ‘destabilizing actions’ in the South China Sea while also condemning Russia’s growing military cooperation with China and North Korea.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and their Japanese counterparts ‘reiterated their strong objections to the PRC’s unlawful maritime claims, militarization of reclaimed features, and threatening and provocative activities in the South China Sea’, a joint statement said, using an acronym for China.

China’s ‘destabilizing actions in this region include unsafe encounters at sea and in the air, efforts to disrupt other countries’ offshore resources exploitation, as well as the dangerous use of Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels’, the communique added…”