China is furious over the latest Pentagon report which focused on China's military activities in 2015, saying it was grossly inaccurate, highly distorted, and an attempt to exaggerate China's military activities in the disputed South China Sea.

The report, which was released last week Friday, said Beijing has poured large investment into 'weaponizing' its structures in the contested territories in a bid to increase its maritime power in the South China Sea.

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The annual report was submitted by the US Defense Department to Congress detailing China's military activities in the region.

Mutual trust

China's Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said the report has 'severely damaged' mutual trust between Washington and Beijing as he condemned the outrageous information the US released to the media.

Yang said the report 'unfairly' depicted the Chinese military activities in the East and South China Sea, manufactured information about China's growing military threat and its apparent lack of transparency, and grossly distorted Chinese defense policies.

"China follows a national defense policy that is defensive in nature," Yang said. He added that Beijing's focus on military reforms and build-up is aimed at upholding and defending its sovereignty, protecting its territorial integrity, and maintaining security.

A high-ranking US Defense official said in the Pentagon report that China has been preparing for a possible conflict in the Taiwan Strait, a strait situated in the disputed South China Sea that separates Taiwan and the mainland.

People's Liberation Army

"Additional missions such as contingencies in the East and South China seas and on the Korean Peninsula are increasingly important to the People's Liberation Army," said Abraham Denmark, US deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia.

Denmark said the report documents the kind of military activities Beijing has been conducting in the past year.

"Let the facts speak for themselves," said Denmark as he underscored in the report that China will be building more military facilities in the hotly contested international waterway following the end of its reclamation work in the region last October.

Denmark said Beijing's military spending spiked between 2006-2015 at an average rate of 9.8 percent each year.

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