China faces multiple threats in Asia-Pacific: gov't

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China faces multiple threats in Asia-Pacific: gov't

Agence France-Presse
Posted at 04/16/2013 3:15 PM | Updated as of 04/16/2013 6:56 PM

BEIJING - China faces "multiple and complicated" threats in the Asia-Pacific region but will put defending itself "above all else", a defense ministry report said Tuesday.
An annual white paper identified as challenges a territorial row with Japan and "some countries" strengthening alliances and boosting their military presence in the region.
The United States has pivoted its foreign policy towards Asia in recent years, a move widely seen as having emboldened China's rivals in a series of maritime territorial spats, which include Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam.
China has the world's largest active military.
"China still faces multiple and complicated security threats and challenges," said the white paper on Diversified Employment of China's Armed Forces, adding the military would "place above all else the protection of national sovereignty and security".
"Some countries are strengthening their Asia-Pacific military alliances, expanding military presence in the region, and frequently making the situation there tenser," it said, without naming any particular state.
Asked if Washington's influence was raising tensions, defense ministry spokesman Colonel Yang Yujun added: "Certain efforts made to highlight a military agenda and enhance military deployment and also strengthen military alliances in the region are not in line with the common interest."
Such actions were "were not conducive to upholding peace and stability in the region" he added.
The white paper also referred to "neighboring countries" complicating and exacerbating tensions, and explicitly accused Japan of "making trouble over the Diaoyu islands".
The East China Sea islands are administered by Tokyo, which knows them as Senkaku, and have been the subject of an intense row between the two Asian powers which reached fever pitch last year after Japan nationalized them.
Both Beijing and Tokyo have scrambled jets near the islands.
The release of the paper is aimed at "better introducing" the development of China's armed forces to a domestic and foreign public, according to Yang.
"China is very candid in terms of its strategic intentions," he said, adding: "We know that every country has its military secrets."
Beijing has repeatedly asserted that it does not seek an expansionist policy as it continues its "peaceful rise".
But it has boosted its declared military spending in recent years, and last month announced the latest in a series of double-digit rises, with a 10.7 percent increase last month.
China's military has undergone rapid modernization in recent years. Last year the navy took delivery of its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, and it has also developed stealth fighter and anti-satellite capabilities.

Source:China faces multiple threats in Asia-Pacific: gov't | ABS-CBN News

- Unsa'y makasulti ninyo ani mga bossing?They have Guts to defend themselves.. how about us?

[Passport]

These are dangerous times... with rhetoric for war sounding from all points of the compass. Looks like a Ruy Lopez to me.. that is, if you play chess.

[nausicaa]

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
They do have the capabilities as they deal with it
They could use the law of the jungle or may toe in the line
A way to prove that they are stronger.
Hence, We can't fight the city hall as it is.

[hobie]

Ang ako masulti ra gyud ani kay;
Hi Nausicaa ��

[kit_cebu]

^hahaha...yaboha...

hopefully, this will not be made as an excuse to go to war....

[aljy]

Still we are not equipt to retaliate against China. Let's just wait and see what Japan does about this terretorial dispute.

[Maylyn]

Mao ni gi ingon kung magkina unsa man gani andam nlng sundang ni lolo og yamyam ni lola hahahaha!

seriously... gamay bikil ani lagi kamuritching gyud ni tanan, lisud kaayo sitwasyon nato kay kita mao'y alaot kung naa man gani gyera mahitabo sa asia pacific..

[balipseyev]

"The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist. Leave none alive. To war!"

Lord of the Rings

[kit_cebu]

Still we are not equipt to retaliate against China.

hahaha...this is funny when AFP can't even cope with abu sayaff...hahaha..

[whiteKelso]

they were just whining and bitching, but their terms are still discreet