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China has condemned the US Defense Department’s annual report on the Chinese military. Beijing today called it a deliberate distortion that has severely damaged mutual trust between the two nations.
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 Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to the Pentagon report . State agency Xinhua reported him saying that the report hyped up China’s military threat and unfairly depicted Chinese activities in the East and South China seas.
Yang said, China follows a national defense policy that is defensive in nature. He added that the country’s military build-up and reforms are aimed at maintaining sovereignty, security and territorial integrity and guaranteeing China’s peaceful development.