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China lodges protest over Pentagon report on planned strikes
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IANS | 18 Aug, 2018
China's Defence Ministry said it has lodged a formal protest with
Washington over a Pentagon report that claimed the Chinese military was
training to carry out strikes against the US.
The Pentagon
report, published on Friday, said China was developing long-range
bombers and "likely" training its pilots for strikes against the US and
its allies, reports Efe news.
"China's military expresses
resolute opposition to this (report)," the ministry said in a statement
late Friday, stressing that Beijing's only objective of modernising its
military was "to protect the country's sovereignty, security and
development interests, as well as global peace, stability and
prosperity".
The statement asks Washington to abandon its "Cold
War mentality" and defends the "Chinese military's reform, weapons
development and defensive capabilities in the internet space" as "just
and reasonable".
The Pentagon report had also said that Beijing
was seeking to develop nuclear capabilities on its long-range bombers
and that China's air force has been reassigned a nuclear mission.
The report comes amid a trade war between the world's two largest economies, which led to imposition of high tariffs on imports.
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