By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press
BEIJING – China will take steps to increase the transparency of its military operations, reporting expenditures to the United Nations and resuming updates about its arms sales, an official said Sunday.
Countries such as the U.S. and Japan have questioned the pace and amount of China’s defense spending.
Beijing will give the U.N. secretary-general “basic data of its military expenditures for the latest fiscal year,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement posted Sunday on the ministry’s Web site.
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