Defense Secretary James N. Mattis meets with China's Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe at the People's Liberation Army's Bayi Building in Beijing, June 28, 2018. DoD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith
Newsweek: China on Its Way to Becoming Powerful Enough 'to Beat Any Military in the World,' U.S. Says
A new Pentagon report has detailed the rise of China's armed forces, criticizing what the U.S. military has viewed as an increasingly serious challenge to its own global interests.
The Defense Department published a news release on Wednesday to accompany the "Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China" report it published earlier this week and presented to Congress. The document painted China's initiatives to expand its economic clout and the capabilities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) as malign measures intended to boost Beijing's world influence at the expense of other countries, including the U.S., in the region the Pentagon calls the Indo-Pacific.
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WNU Editor: The Pentagon's announcement on the rise of China's military can be read here .... DoD Report Details China’s Growing Military, Economic Power (US Department of Defense). The full report on the rise of China's military can be read from here .... Military and Security Developments Involving The People's Republic of China (US Department of Defense).
