China engaged in provocative, coercive activities with India: US report

"As China has grown in strength, so has the willingness and capacity of the Chinese Communist Party to employ intimidation and coercion, " the report stated.

China is engaged in provocative and coercive military and paramilitary activities with neighbouring countries including India, the White House said on Thursday, a day after a top American diplomat backed India's move to strongly resist Chinese aggression into its territory.

"Beijing contradicts its rhetoric and flouts its commitments to its neighbours by engaging in provocative and coercive military and paramilitary activities in the Yellow Sea, the East and South China Seas, the Taiwan Strait, and Sino-Indian border areas, the White House said in a report.

The report, United States Strategic Approach to the People's Republic of China, submitted to Congress