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ITEM: "Beijing has hit back at the U.S., accusing the Pentagon and a congressional commission of fabricating a 'China threat' and warning that one of the biggest risks faced by China was continuing U.S. arms sales to Taiwan," reported CNN for July 23rd. "'The threat to Sino-U.S. relations, the threat to world peace, doesn't lie in China but rather in these people who have fabricated this China threat,' [Washington Embassy spokesman Xie Feng] said..."
CORRECTION: The problem with the Pentagon's long-awaited China assessment is that its release was delayed (so not to offend the Communists during the U.S. visit of Vice President Hu Jintao) and that it pulled its punches.
Others, however, have also noted China's growing capability, with the biggest military in the world. A Taiwanese "white paper" warns that in three years Beijing will be able to strike the island with 600 missiles. Taipei, despite being targeted, has been reducing its military spending consistently.
A recent report from the Philippines states: "Beijing uses negotiating tactics to keep neighboring governments hopeful of a peaceful compromise while the ...