Guest guest Posted July 20, 2001 Report Share Posted July 20, 2001 China sees security challenge on Indian border: US report Updated on 2001-07-20 12:45:02 WASHINGTON, July 20 (PNS): China perceives security challenges confined to the region, including on its border with India, but no global military threat, a US report claims. "China does not currently perceive a global military threat, but instead sees a variety of regional security challenges: Hong Kong, Taiwan, the South China Sea, the Diuoyu (Senaku) Islands, the Indian border, internal separatism and economic threats to China's modernisation strategy," a report, prepared as part of the Director of US Central Intelligence Strategic Estimates programme, says. China's military, with its expenditures (estimated by the US at USD 74.9 billion in 1997 against USD 53 billion in 1991), being the second highest in the world, "views the probability of war to be declining with Russia, India and Vietnam, increasing with the US and Japan, and ever present with Taiwan and South China Sea regional states," report adds. "The goal of defence modernisation," the report says quoting a Chinese source, "is to develop a nuclear weapons capability and space technology not inferior to any superpower and to have a conventional military which matches that of any global power.... "A general trend, widespread in Chinese military writings, is the theme that 'land, sea, air and space warfare' will be highly integrated not only in large-scale wars but also in small-scale armed conflicts". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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