US should take rational view on China's military development

Edited and translated by People's Daily Online

The U.S. Department of Defense issued a strategic guide to defense on Jan. 5, which stressed that the strategic investment in the Asian-Pacific region should be strengthened, and the United States claims that this action is taken in response to the challenges brought by the development of Chinese military strength.

It says, in the long run, China becoming the regional great power will have the potential to influence American economy and security through every means. China will continue developing asymmetric manners to counterbalance American delivery capacity, and China has to clarify its strategic purposes in improving the military strength.

Chinese Ministry of National Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs have presently refuted America's accusations, hoping it could conform to the trend of time, view China and the Chinese military forces objectively and rationally. China also urged it to do more things that are conducive to the regional peace and stability.

American government's accusations of the Chinese government and Chinese military forces in this document are groundless. China's course of over the 30 years since the Reform and Opening-up is a process of peaceful development, and China's development not only benefits all Chinese people, but also brings great opportunities for the regional and global peace and development.

Constructing a harmonious socialism society with prosperity and promoting the construction of an externally harmonious periphery and world reflect the Chinese government's highly unification between domestic and foreign affairs on levels of strategy, philosophy and thinking.

In the early stage since the Reform and Opening-up, China's investments in national defense and army construction stayed at a low level, which broadened its distance with the military modernization of each country throughout the world.