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China Says DoD Report Has Ulterior Motives

June 1, 2004 :: BBC Worldwide Monitoring :: News

Days after China engaged in an 18,000 men exercise for “controlling the Taiwan Strait”, Chinese foreign ministry official Liu Jianchao accused the United States Pentagon of a “Cold War mentality,” and “ulterior motives” in its recent annual report to Congress on Chinese Military Power. “The Pentagon report is full of Cold War thinking and cliches on the China threat,” Liu Jianchao said.
        The charge that the report engages in “Cold War thinking” is a euphemism for the fact that it emphasizes strategic, rather than asymmetrical, threats, that is, the sort of threat posed by nuclear armed Chinese ICBMs rather than the threat of anthrax of terrorists hiding in caves. And to the extent this is true, to the extent that the threat from terrorism has not so clouded strategic thinking, it is so much the better. The report emphasizes that China, too, is thinking strategically, not asymmetrically, and the United States should be as well.  (Article)

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