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General says Chinese military no threat
"We are now predominantly committed to peaceful development and we will not and could not challenge or threaten any other country" and "certainly not the United States," Gen. Xu Caihou, vice-chairman of China's military commission, said Monday while speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, China Daily reported.
Xu said China wants to invigorate military-to-military relations with the United States but added the alleged recent incursions by U.S. naval vessels into China's 200-mile economic zone were an infringement on its sovereignty.
He also said U.S.-China relations underwent a "smooth transition" since President Barack Obama took office.
The newspaper referred to U.S. concerns about China's unprecedented military expansion and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates' call for dialogue to avoid any mistake or miscalculation, and quoted the Chinese general as saying: "I want to make clear that the limited weapons and equipment of China is entirely to meet the minimum requirements for meeting national security. We will never seek hegemony, military expansion or an arms race."
Xu also said China's defense spending was only 1.4 of its gross domestic product, whereas the U.S. defense spending was 4.8 percent of its GDP.
Xu's visit comes ahead of President Obama's planned visit to China next month.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/27/2009
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10-29-2009 12:12
wrote:
Totally believeable. . . sure. . .
10-29-2009 09:27
Redneck wrote:
Taiwan ???
I'm sure the people in Taiwan won't believe that either! After Klinton I wonder what secrets are left to give to China for campaign donations?
10-29-2009 08:30
Catharyne Stauffer wrote:
Perhaps it would mean more if that Chinese General told that to the Dali Lama and the Tibetan people .
Ohh that's right President Obama snubbed the Dali Lama so he is probably really not interested in hearing what he has to say on the topic .
Ohh that's right President Obama snubbed the Dali Lama so he is probably really not interested in hearing what he has to say on the topic .
10-29-2009 05:03
Oldie with a Memory wrote:
Pearl Harbor
Remember Japan had just been in conferences with our Govt. just prior to Pearl Harbor. It seems to me from History that the common thread that runs through it is "HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF"!!! We must walk softly but carry a big, big stick, they own us already, it could be they just plan to call the notes. Then it will be stone soup to be eaten with chop sticks. Go read Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth", they do some amazging horrible other things with chop sticks than eat with them, they use them as tools. We should keep our back-side covered and get the debt paid down as fast as is humanly possible. You know during the war - the big one WW II, we had war bonds, kids saved pennies bought stamps, we put them in books and when full bought bonds - we all helped finance the war with our loans, saving cans, rationing. If, we get back to the sensibilities of that time and the self responsibilities, not looking to Govt for everything, a nation with too many with hands held out, that are able bodied, we would not need all this debt.
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