Military: US report distorts China's strategic intentions

The Chinese military resolutely opposes the Pentagon's new report on China's military development, calling the annual report inaccurate and irresponsible, and stating that it distorted China's strategic intentions, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense said late on Thursday night.

The US Defense Department claimed in the report delivered to the US Congress that the Chinese military has been stealing defense secrets from the US, and it is being more aggressive in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits. The People's Liberation Army might also build new military bases around the world to expand its military presence, it claimed.

Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang, a spokesman of the Chinese Defense Ministry, slammed the report's claims, calling them irresponsible and contradictory of the facts.