Analysis: Pentagon’s China report becomes more pastel
Once again, the release of the annual Pentagon report, entitled Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, a US Congress-mandated document, contributes few points of importance or shock value.
With its non-offensive pastel maps and cover pages, the overall feeling is that China is cosy like a teddy bear and that its reading would be more appropriate as a child’s bedtime story.
The preparation of the report cost US taxpayers $97,000, but finding new information and meaning in the pretty pastel pages of the annual report is becoming increasingly frustrating.
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