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BY STELLA LAW

ANCHOR LAUREN GORES

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China’s military is modernizing. Upgrading, revamping, and going uber techy over the next 15 years. But according to a newly-released US Defense Department report -- the Chinese government needs to be more forthcoming on the details.

Michael Schiffer, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia told C-SPAN...

“...The pace and scope of China's sustained military investment have allowed China to pursue capabilities that we believe are potentially destabilizing to regional military balances, increase the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation, and may contribute to regional tensions and anxieties.” 

Not only is China working to advance traditional weaponry and technology - it is looking at increasing its online capabilities. 

“Although the annual reports often have focused on China’s rapidly increasing hardware capabilities, this year’s report notes China’s developing ability in cyber warfare.” (The Washington Post)

So how does China feel about the U.S. raising an eyebrow to its military spending? One columnist from Xinhua, doesn’t get it - and posts this headline... 

“Despite some positive signs, Pentagon report on China still makes much ado about nothing”.

“For many in China, it is weird that the Pentagon, whose expenditures reached nearly 700 billion U.S. dollars and accounted for over an appalling 40 percent of the world's total in 2010, routinely points its finger at China, whose military only spends a small fraction of what the Pentagon consumes every year.”

But Daily Tech’s Michael Hatamoto points to that very same Pentagon spending as the reason for US concern:

“At a time when U.S. defense spending is under pressure, lawmakers are worried about China's military and space program spending.”


The US military budget is the world’s biggest -- and China’s ranks second.


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