"A neighbor with one billion people equipped with nuclear bombs and has expanded its military outlays by double digits for 17 years in a row, and it is unclear as to what this is being used for. It is beginning to be a considerable threat."
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About China, as quoted in "Japan alarmed by Chinese 'threat'", BBC, 22 December 2005.
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