China Is Pissed About the Pentagon's New Report on Its Military Activity

Source: VICE News

China is not happy about a new Pentagon report, and has condemned it as a deliberate distortion that exaggerates Chinese military activity and their ramped up activities in the hotly contested South China Sea.

In its annual report to Congress on Chinese military activity, released Friday, the US Department of Defense said that China's "investments in military and weaponry operations continue on a path to increase its power projection."

Abraham M. Denmark, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia, said in a Pentagon statement that "China continues to focus on preparing for potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait," referring to a strait in the highly contentious South China Sea which separates the island of Taiwan from the Asian mainland. "Additional missions such as contingencies in the East and South China seas and on the Korean Peninsula are increasingly important to the [People's Liberation Army]."

"This report documents the kind of military that China is building," Denmark said. "It lets the facts speak for themselves."

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