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US report on China's military rejected
By Sun Shangwu (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-21 06:07
China yesterday expressed "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" to a
Pentagon report on its military power, describing the dossier as an attempt to
spread "the China threat" theory.
Chinese Vice
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Yang expressed China's strong displeasure
and firm opposition to a Pentagon report asserting China's
fast-modernizing military could pose a threat to the region, saying "The
report groundlessly attacks China's military modernization and makes
unwarranted charges about China's normal national defense building and
military deployments," in a statement.
[Xinhua] | Vice-Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi
summoned David S. Sedney, charge d'affaires of the US Embassy in China, to make
clear the country's dissatisfaction with the report.
The Pentagon submitted the annual report to congress on Tuesday, warning that
China's modernizing military could threaten US and other armed forces in the
Asia-Pacific region.
"The report groundlessly attacked China's modernization of national defence
and made unwarranted charges against China's normal national defence
construction and military deployment," Yang was quoted as saying in a Foreign
Ministry press release.
The US report said China was "the third largest defence spender in the world
after the US and Russia" and its military modernization "has increased the need
for countermeasures that would enable Taiwan to avoid being quickly
overwhelmed."
Yang, former Chinese ambassador to the US, accused the Americans of using
this as a pretext for selling advanced weapons to Taiwan.
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