China dismisses Pentagon report, cites commitment to global peace

BEIJING - China on Friday dismissed an annual Pentagon report assessing the Chinese military and protested the gratuitous accusations over China's space and network security policies and the playing-up of the so-called Chinese mainland's military threat to Taiwan.

"The report does not hold water as it severely distorted the facts China has lodged solemn representations with the US side," the Ministry of National Defense spokesman Yang Yujun said in a statement about the report.

China adheres to the path of peaceful development, and its national defense policy is defensive in nature, Yang said.