SpaceWar.com reports: “China’s expansion of its armed forces is ‘staggering’, NATO’s chief said on a visit to Japan beginning Tuesday aimed at ‘projecting’ the alliance’s power in the Asia-Pacific region.

‘Let us not be naive about China,’ secretary general Mark Rutte told the Japan Times.

‘The build-up of their armed forces and investments in their defence industry, and in their defence capabilities, is staggering,’ Rutte said in the interview published on Monday…”