Japan’s foreign ministry just put China’s contradiction on the record.
MOFA: China voted for the 1995 UN General Assembly resolution that recognized the Charter’s “enemy state” clauses as obsolete. It also joined the 2005 consensus in which every member, including Beijing, resolved to delete those references from Articles 53, 77 and 107.
The clauses were written for the defeated Axis powers in 1945. Japan has been a UN member since 1956. Twice, on paper, China accepted they were dead letter.
Formal deletion still requires ratification by every permanent Security Council member. China has that power. It has not used it. It is citing the clauses against Japan anyway.
Japan closed by restating PM Takaichi’s UN line: postwar Japan has acted as a peace-loving nation, and it will keep saying so.
Beijing already voted these clauses obsolete. Invoking them now is a reversal of its own recorded position.