BEIJING, June 26 -- "China never threatens any country with its own development, neither does it resort to deterrence and coercion like a certain country," said a Chinese defense spokesperson at a regular press conference on Thursday.
It is reported that the US Secretary of Defense recently claimed at a congressional hearing that China is a "pacing threat", and that the US will prioritize re-establishing deterrence in the "Indo-Pacific" region to "achieve peace through strength". The One Big Beautiful Bill of the US would allocate 12 billion US dollars for the "Pacific Deterrence Initiative", further strengthening combat readiness of the US forces in the "Indo-Pacific" and boosting defense capabilities of Taiwan.
In response to that, Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, said that zero sum game should not be the way that major countries get along with each other, and peaceful coexistence should be the bottom line that both China and the US should keep. China never threatens any country with its own development, neither does it resort to deterrence and coercion like a certain country. The Chinese military has always been a staunch force for maintaining world peace.
"The Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair which brooks no foreign interference. The US side has repeatedly gone back on its own words and kept arming Taiwan, which would only backfire," said the spokesperson, adding that China urges the US side to have an objective and rational perception of China, stop blaming China on everything, and stop deceiving and misleading the US people and the international community, so as to create favorable conditions for developing state-to-state and mil-to-mil relations between China and the US.