China's secretive military opens up in cyberspace

China's military launched a long-promised strategic assault Thursday on its skeptics and detractors, a globe-spanning offensive powered not by arms, but entirely by charm. The weapon was the Defense Ministry's new Web site, its sharp home page topped by a photograph of a winding Great Wall and studded below with links to military news, video and photographs. The lead item on Thursday dealt not with missiles or troops, but with President Hu Jintao's expressions of sympathy to Taiwan, which is believed to have lost more than 500 lives this month to a typhoon.

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