Pentagon's Report On The Growth Of China's Military Raises Alarms (Updated)

China has increased its military budget in the past year by nearly 18 per cent in 2009. (Reuters: stringer Shanghai)

China Pursuing Military Modernisation Programme -- The Telegraph

China is secretly pursuing military power and missile programs in a move which could lead to conflicts with other nations, according to a Pentagon report.

The annual report said that the country’s military modernisation and its culture of military secrecy is raising the risk of “misunderstanding and miscalculation”.

It comes at a time of rising tensions diplomatic and military tensions between the US and China which suspended military-to-military contacts earlier this year following a US decision to sell arms to Taiwan. A US aircraft carrier visited Vietnam earlier this month in a show of force to remind China that Washington was not stepping back from its role in the Asia-Pacific region, safeguarding the flow oil imports to the economies of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

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