Beijing blasts Pentagon report on Chinese military as damaging trust.....

[Zain Malik]

China condemned the United States (US) Defense Department's annual report on the Chinese military on Sunday, calling it deliberate distortion that has "severely damaged" mutual trust.

In its annual report to Congress on Chinese military activities, the US Defense Department said on Friday that China is expected to add substantial military infrastructure, including communications and surveillance systems, to artificial islands in the South China Sea this year.

China's Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun expressed "strong dissatisfaction" and "firm opposition" to the Pentagon report and said it has "severely damaged mutual trust", state news agency Xinhua reported.

The report "hyped up" China's military threat and lack of transparency, "deliberately distorted" Chinese defence policies and "unfairly" depicted Chinese activities in the East and South China seas, Yang was quoted as saying.

"China follows a national defence policy that is defensive in nature," Yang said, adding that the country's military build-up and reforms are aimed at maintaining sovereignty, security and territorial integrity and guaranteeing China's peaceful development.

It is the US that has always been suspicious and flexing its military muscle by frequently sending military aircraft and warships to the region, Yang said.

Despite its calls for freedom of navigation and restraint for peace, the US has pushed forward militarisation of the South China Sea with an "intention to exert hegemony", Yang added.

Reclamation work
The Pentagon report said the planned addition of military infrastructure would give China long-term "civil-military bases" in the contested waters.

It estimated that China's reclamation work had added more than 3,200 acres of land on seven features it occupied in the Spratly Islands in the space of two years.

The report said China had completed its major reclamation efforts in October, switching focus to infrastructure development, including three 9,800 foot-long airstrips that can accommodate advanced fighter jets.

Yang, the spokesman, defended the construction, saying it serves mostly civilian purposes and helps fulfil China's international responsibilities and obligations by providing more public goods.

The Pentagon report comes at a time of heightened tension over maritime territories claimed by China and disputed by several Asian nations.

Washington has accused Beijing of militarising the South China Sea while Beijing, in turn, has criticised increased US naval patrols and exercises in Asia.

The US report renewed accusations against China's government and military for cyber attacks against US government computer systems, a charge Beijing denies. The Pentagon said attacks in 2015 appeared focused on intelligence collection.

 

[dray]

This muscle flexing and hegemonic imperialistic bully attitude will not do any good to China.

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...e-troops-near-indian-border-pentagon-2799965/

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...ops-build-up-near-indian-border/1/668415.html

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-pape...e-troops-near-india-border/article8601953.ece

 

[war&peace]

This muscle flexing and hegemonic imperialistic bully attitude will not do any good to China.

ooh coming from an Indian....how reliable and unbiased. !!!

 

[yantong1980]

This muscle flexing and hegemonic imperialistic bully attitude will not do any good to China.

Like words from CNN article or something like that. Today human not just what their eat, but also what their read or see.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

This muscle flexing and hegemonic imperialistic bully attitude will not do any good to China.

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...e-troops-near-indian-border-pentagon-2799965/

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...ops-build-up-near-indian-border/1/668415.html

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-pape...e-troops-near-india-border/article8601953.ece

Go to check yourself in the mirror or do you need Pakistan, BD, SL, Nepal, Maldives to provide you the mirror for that.?

 

[dray]

Go to check yourself in the mirror or do you need Pakistan, BD, SL, Nepal, Maldives to provide you the mirror for that.?

We have solved all the disputes with the smaller countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc. either through court or through bilaterial talk where we have given them more favourable terms. We never did muscle flexing like China is doing all over its neighbourhood.

 

[TaiShang]

We have solved all the disputes with the smaller countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc. either through court or through bilaterial talk where we have given them more favourable terms. We never did muscle flexing like China is doing all over its neighbourhood.

China solved all its land border disputes except the one with India.

India, on the other hand, is hated by almost all of its small neighbors. No wonder, they are coming under China's influence.

 

[dray]

China solved all its land border disputes except the one with India.

India, on the other hand, is hated by almost all of its small neighbors. No wonder, they are coming under China's influence.

China is even more hated by its smaller neighbours, and all of them along with the bigger powers in the region will eventually checkmate China's hegemonic designs, just wait and watch.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

China is even more hated by its smaller neighbours, and all of them along with the bigger powers in the region will eventually checkmate China's hegemonic designs, just wait and watch.

That's Bollywood thinking , A 2nd economic power of the world has created a lot envy and jalousie to some of our neighbors and become an obsession to bigger power that China one day will take over it. We don't have a hegemonic design but walk on natural path to overtake what bigger power failing to do.

 

[TaiShang]

That's Bollywood thinking , A 2nd economic power of the world has created a lot envy and jalousie to some of our neighbors and become an obsession to bigger power that China one day will take over it. We don't have a hegemonic design but walk on natural path to overtake what bigger power failing to do.

India are hated more and that's despite of its small size. So, hatred toward India is not even due to envy since India has nothing to envy.

On the other hand, we understand some small power (PH and VN, primarily) envy toward China.

Japan is also understandable, fairly recently surpassed by China; but, we are getting closer to a trilateral FTA to set up Asia's largest economic area.

 

[dray]

That's Bollywood thinking , A 2nd economic power of the world has created a lot envy and jalousie to some of our neighbors and become an obsession to bigger power that China one day will take over it. We don't have a hegemonic design but walk on natural path to overtake what bigger power failing to do.

India are hated more and that's despite of its small size. So, hatred toward India is not even due to envy since India has nothing to envy.

On the other hand, we understand some small power (PH and VN, primarily) envy toward China.

Japan is also understandable, fairly recently surpassed by China; but, we are getting closer to a trilateral FTA to set up Asia's largest economic area.

Kids talk about stuff like 'envy' and 'jealousy', not nations. China is undermining and threatening other countries sovereignty and economic interest, and actively supporting terrorist / separatist groups in other countries, so backlash is natural.

 

[RISING SUN]

Kids talk about stuff like 'envy' and 'jealousy', not nations. China is undermining and threatening other countries sovereignty and economic interest, and actively supporting terrorist / separatist groups in other countries, so backlash is natural.

Buddy ignore them, I have already kept them on my ignore list.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Kids talk about stuff like 'envy' and 'jealousy', not nations. China is undermining and threatening other countries sovereignty and economic interest, and actively supporting terrorist / separatist groups in other countries, so backlash is natural.

Go to check your mirror back again, who is threatening Nepal economy interest by blocking their fuels and Gas, who is still supporting Separatist group such Dalai Lama for almost half century and how is threatening Pakistan security by arming to teeth...please don't make such immature comments when your country is just doing exactly what you're accusing other nation of...it's a pure hypocrisy.

 

[dray]

Go to check your mirror back again, who is threatening Nepal economy interest by blocking their fuels and Gas, who is still supporting Separatist group such Dalai Lama for almost half century and how is threatening Pakistan security by arming to teeth...please don't make such immature comments when your country is just doing exactly what you're accusing other nation of...it's a pure hypocrisy.

We didn't block Nepal's fuels and gas, in fact we subsidize Nepal's fuels and gas. Dalai lama is not a terrorist like that Hafiz Saeed or Masood Azhar whom you support, Dalai Lama didn't bomb people or hijack planes. Pakistan is not a innocent baby nation, it's a nuclear power with first strike policy against us, and our arms are still less than China's which is a security concern for us.

 

[Zero_wing]

china is not helping its case