A Pentagon report that expressed concerns about China's buildup of land- and sea-based ballistic missiles "misleads international opinion" and aims to spread false fears of a China threat, Chinese state media said Sunday.
A sharply worded commentary in The People's Daily, the main daily newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, attacked the U.S. Defense Department's annual report to Congress on Chinese military capabilities, saying the report had exaggerated the extent and sophistication of the country's military modernization. (Source: Joseph Kahn, International Herald Tribune, May 27, 2007).