On Tuesday, Beijing issued its first white paper on military strategy, ushering in greater military transparency by giving details of the direction of its military buildup to other nations.

The document of about 9,000 Chinese characters revealed a list of new expressions that have never before appeared in Chinese white papers.

In the preface it reaffirmed China's adherence to peaceful development and its “active defense” military strategy.

For the first time, the paper noted that “some offshore neighbors take provocative actions and reinforce their military presence on China's reefs and islands that they have illegally occupied”.

On cooperation with the US, China intends to build a “new model of military relationships” that conforms to the two nations' new model of major-country relations.

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