12月28日下午，国防部举行例行记者会，国防部新闻局局长、国防部新闻发言人吴谦大校答记者问。
记者：美国总统拜登近日正式签署“2024财年国防授权法案”，包括提高美国军费、增强太平洋威慑力及对抗中国在印太地区军事扩张等，还提出要协助台湾加强防务。请问国防部有何回应？
吴谦：美方法案无端渲染所谓“中国军事威胁”，粗暴干涉中国内政，严重损害中国主权、安全、发展利益，中国军队对此强烈不满、坚决反对。
美国国防费在世界主要国家中名列第一，高于其后9个国家军费的总和，约占全球军费开支总额40%。美方一方面加速自身军力发展，强化亚太军力部署，巩固双边军事同盟，拼凑三边安全伙伴关系和“四边机制”；另一方面却一再拿中国说事，炒作并不存在的“中国军事威胁”，种种操弄加剧国际社会的阵营对抗和军备竞赛态势，对当前的国际安全体系和全球治理体系造成严重冲击。我们要求美方摒弃过时的旧安全观与零和博弈的冷战思维，客观理性地看待中国、看待中国军力发展，以免陷在霸权迷思中难以自拔。
台湾问题纯属中国内政，不容任何外来干涉。我们坚决反对任何国家与台湾开展任何形式的官方往来和军事联系。美方通过各种手段操弄台湾问题，是十分危险的“赌注”行为。我们要求美方充分认清该法案涉华条款的严重危害性，停止借任何名义、以任何方式武装台湾，停止“以台制华”的挑衅行径，以实际行动维护地区和平稳定。
Wu Qian: The US Act makes groundless hypes about the so-called “China military threat”, grossly interferes in China’s internal affairs, and severely harms China’s national sovereignty, security and development interests. The Chinese military strongly deplores and firmly opposes to that.
The US military expenditure tops the world and is larger than those of the next nine countries combined, accounting for 40% of the total global military expenditure. On the one hand, the US is accelerating its military development, intensifying military deployment in the Asia-Pacific, strengthening bilateral military alliance, and piecing together AUKUS and QUAD. On the other hand, it is making an issue of China, hyping up the so-called“China military threat” out of thin air. Such manipulations intensify block confrontation and arms race and cause a severe impact on the current international security system and global governance system. We urge the US to abandon the out-dated security vision and zero-sum cold war mentality, view China and China’s military development in an objective and rational light, instead of being obsessed with the pursuit for hegemony.
The Taiwan question is purely China’s internal affair, which brooks no foreign interference. We firmly oppose any country to have official and military contact with Taiwan in any form. The US is manipulating the Taiwan question in various forms, which is a very dangerous gamble. We urge the US to fully realize the severe harm of the China-related content in the NDAA, stop arming Taiwan under any excuses and by any means, stop its provocations by using Taiwan to contain China, and take concrete actions to maintain regional peace and stability.