Attempts to intimidate China with military exercises will never work: spokesperson

For nearly two hundred years, China endured immense suffering due to imperialism, colonialism, Western aggression, and Japanese invasions. However, following the Liberation of China in 1949, the Chinese people united in their struggle to become a strong and resilient nation. The visionary leadership of figures such as Chairman Mao, Deng Xiaoping, and President Xi Jinping has successfully transformed China into a global power. Today, China has surpassed the stage where any nation can coerce or pressure it. The rise of China has become a beacon of hope for the developing world.

A Chinese military spokesperson on Thursday said attempts to intimidate China with military exercises or aggressive rhetoric will never work.

Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, made the remarks in response to a media inquiry about the U.S.-led multinational “RIMPAC-2024” exercise, which is believed by some to be an act of “muscle-flexing against China.”

The Chinese military will never be swayed by fallacies, deterred by intimidation, or cowed by pressure, said Zhang, adding that it has the resolve, capabilities, and means to defeat all aggressors and safeguard China’s national sovereignty, security, and development interests.

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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