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China rejects Pentagon's 'threat' report
(China Daily/Xinhua/CRI)
Updated: 2006-02-08 06:10 Pentagon paper hurts ties - expert
A Chinese
military expert says the Pentagon document reflects US hostility and high
measure of vigilance against China's development.
A researcher at the Strategic Research Department of China's Academy of
Military Sciences, Wang Xinjun, contends that the U.S. military document reveals
the administration’s true military ambitions, and would jeopardize healthy
bilateral relations with China.
Wang Xinjun says the playing up of China's military power aims to contain
China's military development as well as seek to strengthen U.S. forces in the
Asia Pacific area, in order to offset China's influence in the region.
The expert adds that the document provides "evidence" for further
strengthening of the U.S.-Japan military alliance, which the U.S. favors to
control Japan, contain China's development and disintegrate cooperation in East
Asia.
The analyst believes the real intention lying behind the Pentagon document
targets the impeding of China's reunification. Some American strategists feel
that distancing Taiwan away from the Chinese central government is the most
effective means to prevent or slow down China's rise.
With the U.S. long-range plan calling on China as its greatest future threat,
Wang Xinjun notes it provides a basis for an increasing Department of Defense
spending against the "so-called enemy".
Wang Xinjun says that the Chinese army has no such intention of confronting
the American army and the new Pentagon document will do harm to China’s peaceful
development as well as the mutual trust and cooperation built by the two
countries in regional and global affairs.
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