China accused Hegseth of vilifying the country with defamatory accusations and criticized him for promoting a Cold War ...

China's foreign and defense ministries issued angry statements after Hegseth called the People's Republic a "threat" at a Singapore conference.

We are not going to sugarcoat it — the threat China poses is real. And it could be imminent.'' A ‘provocation' by Hegseth The Chinese statement said the matter of Taiwan is China's internal ...

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth ... China Sea and kept stoking flames and creating tensions in the Asia-Pacific, which are turning the region into a powder keg,” the ministry added in the ...

China lodged a protest over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech at a defense forum in Singapore on Saturday, even as Beijing chose not to send its top military diplomat to the annual event.

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China has protested to the ... spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang said in a statement posted on the ministry's WeChat account. Hegseth had urged allies in the Indo-Pacific region ...

China has denounced U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for calling the Asian country a threat, accusing him of touting a Cold War mentality ...

BEIJING — China on ... ministry said Hegseth vilified Beijing with defamatory allegations the previous day at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a global security conference. The statement also accused ...

BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday denounced U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for calling the Asian country a threat, accusing him of touting a Cold War mentality as tensions between Washington ...