Chinese defence ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang said China expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the annual report, which was released on Wednesday.
The report “misinterpreted China’s defence policy … spread rumours, slandered the Chinese military, and exaggerated the ‘China military threat’,” Zhang said in a ministry statement.
The China Military Power Report has been released each year for the past two decades and is the Pentagon’s most comprehensive unclassified report on China’s defences.
It also highlighted an expansion in quantity and type of weapons in China’s nuclear arsenal, saying the number of nuclear warheads had grown by about 20 per cent to 600 in the year to mid-2024.
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