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Chinese premier calls for severe punishment amid growing anger over vaccine scandal
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A nurse prepares a vaccine to be given to a child in a hospital in Beijing

• Our Foreign Staff

23 JULY 2018 • 2:02 AM
Li Keqiang, the Chinese Premier, has called for an immediate investigation into a scandal over faulty vaccines that he said had crossed a moral line, and urged severe punishment for the companies and people implicated.
The scandal erupted a week ago, after major vaccine maker Changsheng Biotechnology Co was found to have violated standards in making rabies vaccine for humans. There did not appear to be reports, however, of people harmed by the vaccine or having contracted rabies after receiving it.

The case has sparked anger on social media and dealt a blow to China's drug regulator, which has been struggling to clean up the world's second-biggest drug industry and promote domestically made vaccines.
In a statement posted on the government's website late on Sunday, Li said the public deserved a clear explanation.
"We will resolutely crack down on illegal and criminal acts that endanger the safety of peoples' lives, resolutely punish lawbreakers according to the law, and resolutely and severely criticise dereliction of duty in supervision," he was quoted as saying.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reads a letter from Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during his meeting with Malaysia's new government advisor Daim Zainuddin CREDIT: AP
The Food and Drug Administration said in a statement on Sunday evening that its investigation had found that Changsheng fabricates production records and product inspection records, and arbitrarily changes process parameters and equipment, "serious violations" of the law.
In a stock exchange statement on Sunday, the company said its suspension of rabies vaccine production would have a significant impact on its finances and that some regional disease control agencies had suspended some of its other vaccines.
Changsheng's shares fell the maximum limit of 10 percent on Friday, to stand at 14.5 yuan ($2.14). They have lost 40 percent of their value since July 13.
An editorial on Monday in the China Daily warned that the case could become a public health crisis if it is not handled "in a reasonable and transparent manner".
"The government needs to act as soon as possible to let the public know it is resolved to address the issue and will punish any wrongdoers without mercy," it said.


"Those who dare to challenge the bottom line and make substandard or even fake vaccines need to receive the heaviest penalties according to the law."
Late on Sunday, the state news agency Xinhua ran an editorial calling for strict punishment for any violations, big or small, in the vaccine industry and for regulators to close loopholes and tighten oversight of the industry.
The China Securities News also weighed in, saying that listed companies - like Changsheng Biotechnology - have a duty to the public and to conduct business with integrity.
"Cases like Changsheng Biotechnology, where laws and regulations are ignored and internal controls exist only in name bring a painful price," it said.
State media have said the listed company made a public apology and recalled all their rabies vaccine available on the market.

 

[syed putra]

Why bother. By the time dr m meets them, xi jinping and his entire team will be impeached for their involvement with najib and hus 1mdb scam.

 

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China Food and Drug Administration said the problematic rabies vaccine had not left the factory, but the company admitted it had shipped a separate sub-standard vaccine. (Photo: AFP)
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BEIJING: Chinese authorities have arrested 15 people including the chairwoman of a rabies vaccine producer under fire for fraudulent quality control in the country's latest drug-safety scandal.

News that pharmaceutical manufacturer Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology had fabricated records and was ordered to cease production of rabies vaccines has revived deep consumer unease over product safety in the country, fuelled by recurring scandals over the years.

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Authorities in the northeastern city of Changchun, where the company is based, have arrested 15 people including the company's chairwoman on "suspicion of criminal offences", city police announced late on Tuesday.

The announcement did not give the chairwoman's full name but she has previously been identified as Gao Junfang.

The affair has shattered already fragile trust in regulators and spotlighted the frustrations of China's increasingly sophisticated consumers, who took to social media en masse to vent their anger over the case.

The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said last week the problematic rabies vaccine had not left Changsheng's factory, but the company admitted it had shipped a separate sub-standard vaccine.

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That vaccine for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus was found by regulators to fail quality standards, but the company revealed that it sold 250,000 doses to Shandong province last year.

The problems have rekindled already deep fears over domestically made medicines and driven worried parents online to swap information on obtaining imported vaccines.

Authorities have announced a series of investigations and vowed that heads would roll.

In a sign of the high-level unease, President Xi Jinping - on a trip to Africa - weighed in on Monday, calling the vaccine company's actions "vile in nature and shocking", according to state media.
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[congo9]

Maybe they can allow foreign medical company to go in.
When there is competition, then the local company will wake up and make good their promise.

These people knows that they have Government for protection.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Maybe they can allow foreign medical company to go in.
When there is competition, then the local company will wake up and make good their promise.

These people knows that they have Government for protection.

Ah Tiong land has the most protected markets in the world. Buy from them can. Sell to them cannot. That is why Trump is wacking them hard on this.

 

[congo9]

Ah Tiong land has the most protected markets in the world. Buy from them can. Sell to them cannot. That is why Trump is wacking them hard on this.

Actually they should open up much more.
EU , Japan and USA india and korea should gang up and slaughter up these At Tiong.

 

[syed putra]

If chinese companies did not do this, i worry.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Happy to get more likes...

Ah Tiong land has the most protected markets in the world. Buy from them can. Sell to them cannot. That is why Trump is wacking them hard on this.

 

[virus]

unlike sinkieland way of hushing down death and illness on mishandling in TTSH case and singhealth case, china show who is 1st world and transparent

 

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By 2070, heatwave could force up to 400 million Chinese to find refuge in the south
AUGUST 2, 2018 7:31PM

Heatwaves — Natures Silent Killer

Jamie Seidelnews.com.au
NOW we know why Beijing is so interested in the South China Sea: Killer heatwaves are set to sweep across northern China within just 50 years. If they don’t leave, 400 million citizens could face a day where they’re left with only hours to live.
And that day will be a pressure cooker.

A report published this week in the science journal Nature Communications details the effect of climate change on China’s great North Plain, which contains the megacities Beijing and Tianjin. The area’s once fertile open fields have become among the most densely inhabited places on Earth.


But things are warming up. Fast.

“This spot is going to be the hottest spot for deadly heatwaves in the future, especially under climate change,” warned lead author MIT professor Elfatih Eltahir.

And the kinds of heatwaves the data predicts will be among the worst on Earth.

Even in the shade, the ambient heat and humidity could end up killing humans within six hours.

People trying to cool off at a water park in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province, as a heatwave hit several provinces in China. Picture: AFP
People trying to cool off at a water park in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province, as a heatwave hit several provinces in China. Picture: AFP

PERFECT HEATWAVE

Ask any Territorian: it’s not just the heat that’s the problem. It’s the amount of moisture in the air that determines whether or not you get a chance to cool down.

It’s called ‘wet bulb’ temperature.

The human body’s ability to withstand heatwaves depends on its ability to sweat — and for that sweat to cool the skin through evaporation.

Extreme humidity means there’s no room in the air for that sweat to go. So it just clings to you.

And your body heats up.

Even a healthy adult cannot survive outdoors in a ‘wet bulb’ of 35C for more than six hours.

“If the wet bulb temperature exceeds the human body’s skin temperature of 35C, perspiration no longer works as a cooling mechanism,” Seaver College of Science and Engineering Professor Jeremy Pal said. “The body will quickly overheat, resulting in death.”

RELATED: Satellite’s reveal Antarctica’s real state of health

A ‘wet bulb’ of 35C can be produced with 44.4C heat in 55 per cent humidity.

At 85 per cent humidity, ‘wet bulb’ conditions are created at just 37.8C.

“When it is both very hot and humid outside, heat in the body cannot be expelled,” University of Hawaii researcher Camilo Mora said. He developed the model used to calculate deadly heat days under different climate change scenarios.

“This creates a condition called ‘heat cytotoxicity’ that is damaging to many organs,” he told AFP.

“It’s like a sunburn, but inside the body.”

The Nature Communications report says weather conditions capable of generating a killer ‘wet bulb’ could be in place by 2070.

Workers take a break in the shade in Beijing during a heatwave. Picture: AFP

BLOWTORCH ON CHINA

The historical weather archives for northern China point in a terrifying direction.

Records show that, since 1970, heatwaves there have become both more intense and more frequent. Since 1990, their frequency has exploded.

According to the paper, the average temperatures in the North China Plain are already consistently an average of 1.35C above those recorded during the 1950s.

RELATED: 42,000-year-old life emerging from Siberia’s melting permafrost

Extreme heatwaves have begun persisting for periods of up to 50 days, the study shows.

As just one example, Shanghai, East China’s largest city, broke a 141-year temperature record in 2013. Dozens died.

Essentially, the region is experiencing climate change at double the rate of the rest of the world.

And that means Beijing has a problem of a scale unlike anything seen in history.

And it’s being made worse by its solution to another problem: hunger.

Much of the North China Plain has been irrigated to maximise its agricultural output.

It’s China’s ‘bread basket’. Tens of millions of farmers toil the fields by day to feed enormous cities such as Beijing.

Computer models show that same irrigation network is adding a further 0.5C to the region’s temperatures, as well as the humidity.

“Irrigation exacerbates the impact of climate change,” Professor Eltahir says.

A Chinese H-3K strategic bomber takes off into a red dawn. China has been dramatically increasing its military presence along its southern borders. Picture: Chinese State Media

BURNING ISSUE

“The North China Plain is likely to experience deadly heatwaves with wet bulb temperatures exceeding the threshold defining what Chinese farmers may tolerate,” Professor Eltahir says.

So, in the 2070s, the day is coming where those farmworkers will die from heat stroke within just six hours — whether they’re resting in the shade or not. Conditions within the cities will be terrible — but survivable through airconditioning.

EXPLORE MORE: Can China’s military compete with the United States?

But food supplies will reach crisis point. And living conditions would be untenable.

Some 400 million people could be forced to flee for cooler climates.

The report concludes: “China is currently the largest contributor to the emissions of greenhouse gases, with potentially serious implications to its own population: Continuation of the current pattern of global emissions may limit habitability of the most populous region of the most populous country on Earth.”

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[Leongsam]

Ah Tiong land has the most protected markets in the world. Buy from them can. Sell to them cannot. That is why Trump is wacking them hard on this.

The fucked up Chinks are already begging Trump for mercy. They will soon have to kneel before him and seek forgiveness.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Lanjiao... revoke yr likes... fuck you better stupid talk nonsense no better than Sam..

Happy to get more likes...

 

[tanwahtiu]

Evil BE can never win and only losers create war....

US will be crawling on All 4 to China begging Chinese to make for them Christmas present goods...

The fucked up Chinks are already begging Trump for mercy. They will soon have to kneel before him and seek forgiveness.

 

[war is best form of peace]

Why bother. By the time dr m meets them, xi jinping and his entire team will be impeached for their involvement with najib and hus 1mdb scam.

Chinese govt can DELIBERATELY & INTENTIONALLY CARNAGE 100Million, without facing any impeachment. Administration Neglect is also absolutely minor even if death toll figures going 10X 100X bigger.

Vaccine company is a non-government business. Even if it was government ministry directly, and and had caused millions of deaths, still can NEVER expect any IMPEACHMENT AT ALL.

Power is power, and fores is fores, SOLIDLY.

Democracy must be destroyed and punished.

 

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TOKYO: Japan has suspended imports of heat-treated Chinese pork after the first outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) was reported in China on Friday, an official at Japan's ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries said.

Imports of sausage casings and heat-treated rice straw to use for bedding for pigs - which could be contaminated if coming from an outbreak area - were also temporarily suspended, the official said.

The move was to ensure all requirements for the import products were met, he said, adding that the halt will likely be lifted within a couple of days.

Japan has tightened quarantine operations at airports and seaports, especially for travellers from Shenyang and Dalian, near where the infection was found, a second official at the ministry said, using more sniffer dogs than usual and alerting travellers to China's outbreak of ASF.

The agriculture ministry sent a notification on the ASF outbreak to locals governments, pig farmers' associations and veterinarian associations on Friday, reminding farmers and animal doctor to follow proper hygiene procedures.

Japan already bans raw pork imports from China due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the first official said.

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China has a bigger problem than the trade war — a 'mountain of debt'
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It's been a few weeks since Donald Trump fired the opening salvo in a trade war with China, slapping tariffs on a range of Chinese-made goods.

Beijing retaliated with tariffs of its own — and since then, the rhetoric on both sides has been unrepentant.

Much of the focus has been on nervous financial markets, and how the war could affect the fortunes of US farmers and manufacturers — but how do things look from China's side?

Is the trade war the biggest threat to China's economy, or does the country have more pressing problems — like its massive debt?

Listen to Dinny McMahon talk about China's view on the trade war

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Dinny McMahon, who spent a decade covering China for the Wall Street Journal, says while Beijing obviously isn't welcoming the trade war, it's also unlikely to be crippled by it.

That's because China's economy is no longer driven by exports.

"In 2007, net exports contributed about 9 per cent to China's GDP. Last year we were down to 2 per cent," McMahon says.

"Exports aren't the be all and end all for the Chinese economy, as they once were."

On top of that, he says, the US only accounted for about 19 per cent of China's exports last year.

"So the ... trade conflict with China isn't perhaps the bludgeon that Donald Trump believes that it is, and certainly once would have been," McMahon says.

The big problem for China, he says, is that the trade war isn't happening in isolation.

Massive debt and ghost cities
China is also dealing with a "mountain of debt" racked up at a massive pace over the past decade, as it raced to catch up with the "rich world".

"Since 2008 China has been on this massive debt-fuelled binge," McMahon says.
"It has been fuelled by debt at every step of the way, to a point where now Chinese debt levels are in excess of those in the United States."

The biggest problem isn't the overall levels of debt, McMahon says, but the pace at which it's been accumulated.

He says that around a decade ago, China's debt levels were about 160 per cent of the size of its GDP.

"Now it's somewhere between 280 and 300 per cent," he says.

When other countries have accumulated debt that quickly, they have "almost invariably experienced a financial crisis", McMahon says.

"That's like the United States before the sub-prime crisis, or Thailand before the Asian financial crisis," he says.

A lot of the money China borrowed from state banks was invested in infrastructure. Some of the construction was useful, but the non-stop building boom also created 'ghost cities'.

Sprawling houses and apartment buildings in China.
PHOTO A ghost city in Baodi District, about 110 kilometres from Beijing. It has around 3,000 completed villas but the occupancy rate is just 10 per cent.

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They were essentially built from scratch to accommodate people moving from the countryside into the cities in the future — but that was "nothing more than a fig leaf at the end of the day".

Hardly anyone actually turned up to live in them.

"They do have people living in them but it's almost a skeleton population relative to what they were built for," McMahon says.

Cities with no people

Fancy villas, high-rise apartment blocks, lakes, parks and sprawling road networks: ghost cities in China have everything — except people.
He says local government officials were driving the construction boom.

"Their success and their ability to get promoted onwards and upwards is primarily based on their ability to generate economic growth," he says.

"They are invariably in these positions for very short periods of time.

"If you only have three years to prove your ability as a proven economic manager, somebody who can deliver growth, then the easiest way to do that is to borrow a whole lot of money and build something big very, very quickly.

"After three years you'll have the city, or you'll at least have a city in progress, to show everything you've managed to generate.

"But when the debt comes to you, you will be somewhere else, and it will be your successor that has to deal with the fallout."

McMahon, who has recently released a book titled China's Great Wall of Debt, says Beijing is now trying to unwind its debt problem.

But that's making its economy "a lot more fragile that it has been in a very long time".

"It has all these variables which it's trying to manage at the same time, and certainly the trade war is not making things any easier for them," he says.

What could come next in the trade war?
So what could China's next move in the trade war be?

Ratcheting up its own tariffs could be one option.

"But the big problem here is that China exports to the United States far more than the United States exports to China," McMahon says.

"So Donald Trump can keep saying we are going to impose more and more tariffs, and China will hit its limits of what it can impose tariffs on before the US gets to its upper limit."

These limits already appear evident: the latest tit-for-tat manoeuvring saw the US impose tariffs on $US200 billion of Chinese exports, and China respond with tariffs on $US60 billion of US exports.

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Another approach China could take involves making it more difficult for US companies to operate in the country.

McMahon uses the example of a company like Starbucks, which doesn't really contribute to trade flows between the US and China, but operates thousands of cafes there.

"It's a great source of revenue for an American company. You could have a situation where China then starts to make life economically difficult for these sorts of companies," he says.

That could involve "the imposition of bureaucratic rules", or alternatively "the courts might make life more difficult for them".

And what about the US?

McMahon says Mr Trump's tariffs would hit harder if he teamed up with other countries and regions, such as the European Union and Japan.

"The combined trade clout that those regions have with China could have a really meaningful impact on China's exports," he says.

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Chinese bombers likely training for US strikes: Pentagon
The annual report to US Congress highlights China's growing military, economic and diplomatic clout and how Beijing is leveraging this to rapidly establish regional dominance.
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17 Aug 2018 04:08AM (Updated: 17 Aug 2018 04:12AM)
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WASHINGTON: Chinese bombers are likely training for strikes against US and allied targets in the Pacific, according to a new Pentagon report that also details how Beijing is transforming its ground forces to "fight and win."
The annual report to Congress, released on Thursday (Aug 16), highlights China's growing military, economic and diplomatic clout and how Beijing is leveraging this to rapidly build its international footprint and establish regional dominance.

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In the case of China's air power, the report states that Chinese bombers are developing capabilities to hit targets as far from China as possible.
"Over the last three years, the PLA (People's Liberation Army) has rapidly expanded its overwater bomber operating areas, gaining experience in critical maritime regions and likely training for strikes against US and allied targets," the document states, noting how China is pushing its operations out into the Pacific.
In August 2017, six Chinese H-6K bombers flew through the Miyako Strait in the southwest of the Japanese islands, and then for the first time turned north to fly east of Okinawa, where 47,000 US troops are based.
The PLA may demonstrate the "capability to strike US and allied forces and military bases in the western Pacific Ocean, including Guam," the report says.

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LARGEST GROUND FORCE
China is engaged in a decades-long build-up and modernisation of its once-backward armed forces, and military leaders have set a goal of fielding a world-class military by 2050.
President Xi Jinping last year ordered the PLA to step up efforts, saying China needed a military ready to "fight and win" wars.
The call has alarmed China's neighbours, several of whom are embroiled in tense border disputes with the superpower.
According to the Pentagon, the PLA in April 2017 undertook a massive transformation of operational and tactical units as part of its structural reforms.
With nearly a million troops, the PLA is the largest standing ground force in the world.
"The purpose of these reforms is to create a more mobile, modular, lethal ground force capable of being the core of joint operations and able to meet Xi Jinping's directive to 'fight and win wars,'" the report notes.
China's military budget for 2017 was about US$190 billion, according to the report, far behind the Pentagon's annual budget of about US$700 billion.
When the Pentagon released its annual report last year, Beijing dismissed it as "irresponsible" in predicting that China would expand its global military presence by building overseas bases in countries like Pakistan.
This year's report reiterates that China will seek to establish new bases in countries such as Pakistan.
Key to this expanding footprint is China's "belt and road" initiative that seeks to bolster ties with other nations through lending and infrastructure deals.
TAIWAN 'CONTINGENCY'
The document also shines a light on China's ongoing military preparations for a "contingency" in the Taiwan Strait.
Officially, China advocates for a peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but it has never repudiated the use of military force, the document notes.
"The PLA also is likely preparing for a contingency to unify Taiwan with China by force, while simultaneously deterring, delaying, or denying any third-party intervention on Taiwan’s behalf," it states.
"Should the United States intervene, China would try to delay effective intervention and seek victory in a high-intensity, limited war of short duration."
To the ire of regional neighbours, China has built a series of islets and ocean features into military facilities in the South China Sea.

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Activists protest in front of the Chinese consulate in Manila against Beijing's claims in the South China Sea. (AFP/TED ALJIBE)

Beijing has now stopped substantial land reclamation. "However, it continued to build infrastructure at three outposts," the report says.
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China economy will collapse first before it can develop into a mighty army.

 

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Chinese bombers likely training for US strikes: Pentagon
The annual report to US Congress highlights China's growing military, economic and diplomatic clout and how Beijing is leveraging this to rapidly establish regional dominance.
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A J15 fighter jet landing on China's sole operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, during a military exercise. (AFP Photo)
17 Aug 2018 04:08AM (Updated: 17 Aug 2018 04:12AM)
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WASHINGTON: Chinese bombers are likely training for strikes against US and allied targets in the Pacific, according to a new Pentagon report that also details how Beijing is transforming its ground forces to "fight and win."
The annual report to Congress, released on Thursday (Aug 16), highlights China's growing military, economic and diplomatic clout and how Beijing is leveraging this to rapidly build its international footprint and establish regional dominance.

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In the case of China's air power, the report states that Chinese bombers are developing capabilities to hit targets as far from China as possible.
"Over the last three years, the PLA (People's Liberation Army) has rapidly expanded its overwater bomber operating areas, gaining experience in critical maritime regions and likely training for strikes against US and allied targets," the document states, noting how China is pushing its operations out into the Pacific.
In August 2017, six Chinese H-6K bombers flew through the Miyako Strait in the southwest of the Japanese islands, and then for the first time turned north to fly east of Okinawa, where 47,000 US troops are based.
The PLA may demonstrate the "capability to strike US and allied forces and military bases in the western Pacific Ocean, including Guam," the report says.

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LARGEST GROUND FORCE
China is engaged in a decades-long build-up and modernisation of its once-backward armed forces, and military leaders have set a goal of fielding a world-class military by 2050.
President Xi Jinping last year ordered the PLA to step up efforts, saying China needed a military ready to "fight and win" wars.
The call has alarmed China's neighbours, several of whom are embroiled in tense border disputes with the superpower.
According to the Pentagon, the PLA in April 2017 undertook a massive transformation of operational and tactical units as part of its structural reforms.
With nearly a million troops, the PLA is the largest standing ground force in the world.
"The purpose of these reforms is to create a more mobile, modular, lethal ground force capable of being the core of joint operations and able to meet Xi Jinping's directive to 'fight and win wars,'" the report notes.
China's military budget for 2017 was about US$190 billion, according to the report, far behind the Pentagon's annual budget of about US$700 billion.
When the Pentagon released its annual report last year, Beijing dismissed it as "irresponsible" in predicting that China would expand its global military presence by building overseas bases in countries like Pakistan.
This year's report reiterates that China will seek to establish new bases in countries such as Pakistan.
Key to this expanding footprint is China's "belt and road" initiative that seeks to bolster ties with other nations through lending and infrastructure deals.
TAIWAN 'CONTINGENCY'
The document also shines a light on China's ongoing military preparations for a "contingency" in the Taiwan Strait.
Officially, China advocates for a peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but it has never repudiated the use of military force, the document notes.
"The PLA also is likely preparing for a contingency to unify Taiwan with China by force, while simultaneously deterring, delaying, or denying any third-party intervention on Taiwan’s behalf," it states.
"Should the United States intervene, China would try to delay effective intervention and seek victory in a high-intensity, limited war of short duration."
To the ire of regional neighbours, China has built a series of islets and ocean features into military facilities in the South China Sea.

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Activists protest in front of the Chinese consulate in Manila against Beijing's claims in the South China Sea. (AFP/TED ALJIBE)

Beijing has now stopped substantial land reclamation. "However, it continued to build infrastructure at three outposts," the report says.
Source: AFP/de
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[kryonlight]

Xi Jinping and his whole bunch of chink imperial eunuchs should give one another a jab of the contaminated vaccines.