Crouching Tiger: US Suspects China of Global Military Ambitions
SputnikNews.com
11.05.2015
The United States is concerned with China’s swift naval modernization, Ankit Panda highlighted, adding that China is bolstering its shipbuilding industry and expanding the geographic reach of its military activities.
Washington is primarily concerned with China’s rapid naval modernization, foreign affairs analyst Ankit Panda noted, referring to the Pentagon’s 2015 report entitled “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2015.”
“The report is a sobering reminder that, despite China’s headline-grabbing land reclamation activities in the South China Sea and its ongoing dispute with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islets in the East China Sea, the primary driver of China’s military modernization continues to be “potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait,” the analyst underscored.
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