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China Sustaining Anti-Access Strategy, Pentagon Says

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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China continues to invest in key technologies designed to thwart access to key regions of the Asia-Pacific by other militaries, the Pentagon said in its annual report on China’s military buildup published on Friday. The annual report to Congress said Beijing during 2011 kept up the pace of pouring money into advanced cruise missiles, short and medium range conventional ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles and military cyberspace capabilities to support a strategy of anti-access area-denial (A2AD). “Some of the areas that…

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