Rumsfeld Seeks to 'Peddle' American Weaponry By Criticizing China

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Rumsfeld Seeks to 'Peddle' American Weaponry By Criticizing China
By Meng Na
June 8, 2005

BEIJING: Chinese military experts on Friday dismissed the notion that China is a military threat, articulated up by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld earlier this month, saying it is totally groundless and is actually designed to peddle the sale of U.S. weapons.

Rumsfeld said on June 4 at an Asian regional security conference in Singapore that, "China is sharply increasing its military spending and buying large amounts of sophisticated weapons. Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment? Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases?"

Peng Guangqian, a major general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), who is also a research fellow with the PLA Military Academy of Sciences, said on Friday that Rumsfeld's frequent comments on the military threat from China has at least three true objectives.

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1. Gotta balance our trade deficit somehow

We make fine (and expensive) weapons. We are the undisputed leaders in the death and destruction market.