__China Angry by U.S. DOD Claims__
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On Tuesday, May 23rd, the United States Department of Defense released a statment saying that the Chinese Military expansion could be a possible threat to the world. In response to the the United States statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jiancha said this:"China is a peace-loving nation and has insisted on a way of peaceful development, with a national defense policy that is defensive in nature." China spends $105.9 billion dollars on its millitary, that is just over 1/4 of what the U.S. spends which is $400 billion dollars. China has already deployed 400,000 ground forces in an effort to back up it's threat to invade Taiwan. The Chinese mainland says that Taiwan is a territory of China.
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