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Spokesman: China's National Defense Work Indisputable

Chinese national defense work and military deployment are aimed at safeguarding national security and territorial integrity and, therefore, are indisputable, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.

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Chinese national defense work and military deployment are aimed at safeguarding national security and territorial integrity and, therefore, are indisputable, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Kong Quan made the remark when asked to a comment on a recent annual report of the Pentagon on Beijing's military assessment, noting that China. as a sovereign state, holds an independent foreign policy of peace and its national defense policy is defense-oriented.

China will keep on marching on the road of peace and development, he acknowledged.

Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, Kong said, and the Chinese government has always been adhering to the basic principles of "peaceful reunification" and "one country, two systems", and will try its best, with the utmost sincerity, to realize a peaceful reunification.

The growth of the Taiwan-independence forces is precisely the greatest threat to the stability of the Taiwan Straits, Kong noted.

The US side has repeatedly agreed to abide by the three Sino-US joint communiques, adhere to the one-China policy and to oppose Taiwan's independence, Kong said, urging the United States to effectively honor its commitments.

Some people in the United States are attempting to create an excuse for selling weapons to Taiwan by overstating the Chinese military force and military expenditure and clamoring the mainland's threat to Taiwan, Kong said.

But the facts are more eloquent, for the international community takes China as an active force in maintaining world peace and promoting common development, the spokesman said.

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