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Dirty Little Secret: How China Built Its Military Might (Thanks to America and Russia)

The People’s Republic of China is forcefully denying that it steals dual-use technologies and intellectual properties from other countries such as the United States to advance its military capabilities. Beijing is also denying that it poses a nuclear proliferation threat around the world.

Responding to U.S. assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation Christopher Ford’s statements accusing China of illicitly obtaining advanced American technologies through means such as civil nuclear cooperation for military purposes, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying forcefully denied the allegations.

“The accusation against China by the U.S. official is entirely groundless and irresponsible,” Hua said during a press conference on July 19 in Beijing. “We firmly oppose that.”