China intensifies bombing training. A Pentagon report reveals it

A Pentagon report reports that the Chinese military has stepped up their bombing training against the United States and its allies.

The assessment, which comes when China-US relations are strained, was contained in an annual report highlighting China's efforts to increase its global influence, with a sizeable increase in defense spending that the Pentagon estimated to go beyond 190 billion dollars in 2017.
The report arrives while China and the United States are, however, planning talks for the commercial issue, with the hope that it will solve a growing tariff conflict that threatens to degenerate into a commercial war across the board.
This year, the Chinese Air Force placed bombers on islands and coral reefs in the South China Sea, thus placing Beijing and Moscow at the center of a new national defense strategy in January.
Washington and Beijing, however, have military relations to contain tensions in the region. But in May the first disagreements, the Pentagon withdrew an invitation to China to join a multinational naval exercise.
Then in June, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was the first Pentagon chief to visit China from the 2014.
The Pentagon report also highlighted that despite an expected slowdown in economic growth, China's official defense budget will reach over $ 240 billion by 2028.
The Pentagon report also said that the Chinese space program was progressing rapidly.
"China continues to strengthen its military space capabilities despite its public stance against the militarization of space," he said.
This month, President Donald Trump's administration announced an ambitious plan to usher in a new "Space Force" as the sixth branch of the military by 2020.
One of the arguments in favor of the development of such force is that American rivals like China seem increasingly ready to hit the US space capabilities in case of conflict.

China intensifies bombing training. A Pentagon report reveals it

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