TOKYO -- Japan will consider designating China an unprecedented "strategic challenge" in its new National Security Strategy, taking a tougher stance on the country in line with key recent documents from the U.S. and NATO.
The government proposed the language at a Thursday meeting with members of the junior ruling coalition partner Komeito. Japan's current National Security Strategy, compiled in 2013, calls China's "external stance and military activities" an "issue of concern."
