Even as China has grown in power and rebuilt its armed forces, the West and Japan have run up debts and sold it their technology.

在中国实力逐渐长进、武装力量逐渐重新形成规模的同时，西方和日本却在积累债务、出售技术。

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China will continue to brush aside Japan's longstanding complaints about the secretiveness of China's armed forces and the big annual increases in its budget.

对日本长期以来有关中国秘密军事力量和逐年增加的军事预算的抱怨，中国将会置之不理。

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Many experts believe the actual amount spent by China on its armed forces is far higher than the published amount.

许多专家认为，中国的实际军事支出要远远高于其公布的数据。

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The Z-10 helicopter is in production and started being used by China's armed forces in 2009, according to the Justice Department.

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In this case, China's armed forces are impatient to blacken Taiwan's eye.

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But those events were more easily choreographed than the Singapore forum, where last year he was peppered with questions about China's armed forces.

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