Rapid Fire May 7, 2013 – Chinese Capability Assessment: They Spy!

No lack of friction points

• The Pentagon released its annual report [PDF] to Congress on military developments in China. The excitable media is getting their panties in a bunch over the explicit denunciation of Chinese attacks that could help map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.” Stop the presses, that exact same phrase was already in an October 2009 report [PDF] from the congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Somehow it’s a bold move for the Obama administration to tell back to Congress what Congress told them almost 4 years ago. The report and its predecessors are in our Google Drive.