I realize Secretary Kerry has exceptional demands on his time with the concluding year of the Obama Administration, but, certainly there needs to be talks with China's military and the USA's military to iron out a realistic understanding. If the Chinese are worried about the way they are characterized in the USA's assessment that is fertile ground for talks to end old Cold War ideologies.
I am sure China would like to achieve certain guarantees with the USA. The Chinese also have a nuclear stockpile that comes under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This could be a real opportunity for China, the USA and the countries of the South China Sea.
May 16, 2016
By Chen Weihua
...In a statement posted (click here) on the ministry website on May 14, Yang called the report "improper talk" when it comes to issues such as Chinese military reform, overseas military operations, development of weaponry and military equipment, the military budget, space, cyberspace and Taiwan.
I am sure China would like to achieve certain guarantees with the USA. The Chinese also have a nuclear stockpile that comes under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This could be a real opportunity for China, the USA and the countries of the South China Sea.
May 16, 2016
By Chen Weihua
...In a statement posted (click here) on the ministry website on May 14, Yang called the report "improper talk" when it comes to issues such as Chinese military reform, overseas military operations, development of weaponry and military equipment, the military budget, space, cyberspace and Taiwan.
"(It) wantonly distorted China's national defense policy and the legal activities in the East and South China seas," Yang said.
"The Chinese side expresses its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition (to the report)," he said.
Yang reiterated that China sticks firmly to a national defense policy that is defensive in nature, and Chinese military reform and modernization is aimed at ensuring China's national sovereignty, security, territorial integrity and peaceful development of the nation.
He said the US side continues to harbor suspicions about China's strategic intentions and labels China's normal weaponry and military equipment development as "anti-access" or "area denial".
"Why is the US side expressing such concerns if it is still not embracing a Cold War mentality?" he asked.
He also defended China's construction on reefs and isles in the Nansha Islands as not only meeting the necessary requirements for national defense, but even more so in serving civilian purposes and carrying out China's international obligations....
