By repeatedly raising sea disputes Abe shows he is out to make trouble

AT THE JUST CONCLUDED G20 summit in Turkey, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mentioned China's maritime disputes in the East China Sea and South China Sea in bilateral talks with other leaders. Abe asked China to "demilitarize" the South China Sea at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, too. That is not a smart diplomatic habit, says an article on guancha.cn:

It is a natural move for national leaders to express their concerns on international diplomatic occasions, and China has called for defense of the postwar world order several times. But Abe is crossing the line, because he is intervening in other nations' affairs even though Japan is not involved in the South China Sea maritime disputes.

A look at the past years will show that Abe has long been tirelessly stirring up trouble over the South China Sea disputes, where Japan is an outsider. He mentioned the South China Sea at the 2014 Shangri-la Dialogue, and talked about it again at the meetings of Association of Southeast Asian Nations defense ministers and foreign ministers this year.