Beijing dismissed a 42-page Pentagon report on Chinese military development released May 25 as ill-informed, one-sided and exaggerated, the Financial Times reported. "The 2007 report again seeks to mislead international opinion with its erroneous point of view, and this clearly goes against the current mainstream of developing ties between these two countries and their militaries," state media commented. Although the report pointed to rising US concerns of China's rising military capacity, in addition to noting China's commitment to peace and military goal of protecting the country's sovereignty from separatist threats from Taiwan. Chinese analysts have said that their country's military secrecy is understandable, given the huge gap in technological capabilities between its forces and those of the US.