(The change is that Japan now has the right to send troops overseas when
necessary.)
"it's only natural for us to wonder if Japan is going to change its path of
peaceful development that it has long pursued after World War II," a Chinese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said.
The Japanes administration rebuts this, saying the change will allow it to
promote a notion which it has dubbed "proactive pacifism", but that will not
entail invovement in military oeprations overseas, such as in Afghanistan.
Could someone tell me what the meaning of "dubbed" here is ?