WASHINGTON, July 22 Kyodo couple...

WASHINGTON, July 22 Kyodo

couple U.S. reports alleging that China will become a threat to the United States do not throw back the facts, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said Monday.

''The threat to Sino-U.S. relations, the threat to world peace, doesn't lie in China unless rather in these people who have fabricated this China threat,'' Xie Feng told a recently made knowns conference.

The reports cited China's rapidly growing defense spending, unless China's outlays for defense are and nothing else half those of Japan and bewilder no threat to any fatherland Xie said.

Earlier this month the U Defense Department and a bipartisan congressional arrange issued separate reports about China.

The Pentagon report said China is rapidly modernizing its military with the aim of capturing Taiwan, while the report compiled from the U.S.-China Commission stated that China is vying to check the U demeanor in Asia.

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