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US report on China's military forces refuted
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-01 19:55 Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman on Tuesday refuted a recent report issued by Pentagon on Beijing's
military forces, saying that the report deliberately exaggerated China's
military forces and expenditure and had ulterior motives.
The Pentagon report was filled with cold war mentality and the hackneyed
theme of "China threat", spokesman Liu Jianchao said at the ministry's regular
press briefing.
Chinese people love peace and China holds an independent foreign policy of
peace and its national defense policy is defense-oriented, he said.
China will keep on the road of peace and development, he said.
As a sovereign state, China has the right to build up national defense in
safeguarding national security and territory integrity,the spokesman said.
The spokesman said there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of
China.
He said the Chinese government always adheres to the basic principles of
"peaceful reunification" and "one country, two systems", and is willing to try
its best, with the utmost sincerity, to realize a peaceful reunification.
But, Liu said, China will never tolerate "Taiwan independence",neither will
China allow anybody to split Taiwan from the motherland with any means. "The
Taiwan independence activities arethe greatest threats to the peace and
stability across the Taiwan Strait."
Liu said China urges the United States to take concrete steps to fulfill its
commitments of adhering to the "one-China" policy, abiding by the three China-US
joint communiques and opposing "Taiwan independence".
The spokesman also asked the United States to stop selling advanced weapons
to Taiwan under any pretenses and refrain from sending wrong signals to Taiwan.
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