Mr. Geng said that since the creation of the Ministry of National Defense and China Military Online websites, both had faced serious and growing numbers of attacks.
The Chinese military say that two of their East China Sea fleet fighter jets were scrambled to track an unnamed foreign surveillance aircraft on Sunday, according to China News Service.
As a result, between now and 2050 the number of men in China aged 20 to 25 (ie, of prime military recruiting age) will halve.
He believed that the resumption of military talks between the US and China has helped, and said "perhaps we can make an advancement in that regard".
Little is known about the Y-20, with a China Daily report stating the aircraft is believed to have been developed by the Xi'an Aircraft Industry, a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corp. of China, the major military aircraft manufacturer.
China denies the existence of a military plan, but Chinese officials have declined to comment in detail.
The state-run China Daily newspaper, citing a spokesman for China's Ministry of National Defense, said the U.S. and China will resume military-to-military discussions later this month.
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As a share of GDP, South Korea's military spending is bigger than China's, Japan's and Brazil's.
At the same time, both the United States and China were wary of the Soviet Union's military power and expansionist agenda.
Gunpowder had already been invented in China but had not resulted in the sort of sophisticated military weaponry that the Europeans would develop from it.
She asked Hagel how he can assure China that the increased military deployments to the region are part of an effort to build a more positive relationship with Beijing.
" In fact, she later stated that China's burgeoning military might was not a threat but that, "what is important is for China's military power to be put to the service of peace.
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But China and South Korea say they would oppose the use of military force.
India and China have announced they will resume joint military exercises after a gap of four years.
Japan Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said that without the participation of the world's two largest military powers, the United States and China, the treaty would be toothless.
But they also said that China is catching up fast in other areas of civil and military aviation technology, thanks in large part to technology transferred by foreign aerospace companies in Chinese joint ventures.
Then it mounted a big operation to fly out its citizens on chartered flights and four military aircraft (China also sent a frigate from its duties off the Horn of Africa to provide protection for vessels transporting refugees across the Mediterranean).
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Military relations have lagged behind other aspects of the engagement between the U.S. and China, whose economies are deeply entwined.
The vacuum created by an American departure would force nations like Bahrain and Qatar to seek new military protectors, either by submitting to the influence of bigger regional powers or by reaching out to China.
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That concern is especially pronounced in Northeast Asia, the industrial heartland of the new global economy, because countries like China can afford to buy the latest military hardware.
Thirty-three-year-old Liu Yang, also a military pilot, has on the other hand emerged as China's first woman astronaut after just two years of training.
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