China Trashes U.S. Military Cold War Report Defends Border Moves On Land And Sea
The Chinese Ministry of National Defense dismissed the United States’ annual China Military Power Report on Wednesday as being “full of the zero-sum Cold War mentality.” The document, published a day earlier, portrayed a rapidly-modernizing, more assertive force that has already outpaced the U.S. military in certain areas in a quest to “rejuvenate China” to a position of global leadership. The Chinese military took offense to its contents. The ministry’s statement found the report “exaggerates the so-called ‘Chinese military threat,’ distorts China’s defense policy and military strategy, smears China’s military modernization development, defense expenditure and nuclear policy, and provokes cross-strait confrontation and intensifies tensions across the Taiwan Strait, which are extremely wrong....