Beijing’s message is basically:
Stop writing cheap spy thrillers in which every Chinese woman is an intelligence asset sent to seduce some American tech genius.
China has the talent, the technology, the market, the industrial ecosystem, and China is still open to cooperation.
You can keep inventing increasingly hysterical excuses for technological containment.
The more energy you spend trying to trip up your competitor, the more obvious it becomes that you have stopped moving forward yourself.
Every time China reiterates this history, the message to Japan is the same:
The crimes you want erased are already carved into history’s pillar of shame.
They are not yours to rewrite.
And they are not yours to repeat.