����WASHINGTON,
July 22 (Xinhuanet) -- A Chinese spokesman said here Monday that two
recent reports to the U.S. Congress blowing up the"China threat" theory
were groundless and harmful to the Sino-US relations.
����Chinese Embassy spokesman Xie Feng said the two reports issued in
the last 10 days, one by the Pentagon and the other by the Sino-US
Security Review Commission, "are not true to facts."
����Xie pointed out that China's defense budget is the lowest amongall
the major countries in the world. "It's about one-nineteenth of the United
States and half of Japan. So I don't think militarily China poses any
threat to any country," he said at a news conference.
����"China is a developing country with a relatively low GDP per
capita..Our basic national policy right now is to continue concentrating
on economic construction so as to further raise the living standard of our
people," he said.
����"Besides, China has a history of peace-loving. If you have studied
Chinese culture, you will find that the essence of Chinesephilosophy lies
in peace and harmony," he said, noting that the map of China today is very
similar to that in the Han dynasty, which was 2,000 years ago.
����Concerning the Pentagon report which estimated that China's annual
military spending is as high as 65 billion dollars, Xie said: "I have
noticed that here in the United States, a group of Americans have been
complaining loudly about the lack of transparency of Chinese military
spending. So I just wonder through what ways -- how do they come up with
this 65 billion U.S.dollars?"
����The so-call "China threat" theory is really not something new, Xie
noted. Whenever Sino-U.S. relations reaped some progress, thensome people
who cling to the Cold War mentality would come back and blow up this
theory, he said.
����"The threat to Sino-U.S. relations and the threat to world peace
doesn't lie in China, but rather in these people who have fabricated this
China threat," he said. Enditem
