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A elder Chinese authoritative accused the United States’ Defence main connected Thursday (July 3, 2025) of “inciting confrontation and conflict” aft helium urged American allies to bolster their militaries to antagonistic Beijing.
China and the United States past period said they had reached an knowing connected a commercialized woody — a truce aft bruising tit-for-tat tariffs connected each other's goods.
But the 2 countries inactive disagree connected issues ranging from exertion and information to geopolitics, including the conflicts successful Ukraine and the Middle East, arsenic good arsenic Beijing's territorial claims successful Asia.
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U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has warned that China is preparing to usage subject unit to upend the equilibrium of powerfulness successful Asia and has urged American allies to execute "peace done strength".
On Thursday, Liu Jianchao, the caput of the International Department of China's ruling Communist Party, said Hegseth's remarks constituted "hegemonic thinking".
"What helium genuinely wants is force, not dialogue," Mr. Liu told the World Peace Forum successful Beijing.
"What helium is inciting is confrontation and conflict, not bid and harmony," helium said.
China and the United States person agelong been astatine likelihood implicit Beijing's expansive claims successful the strategically important South China Sea, and its refusal to regularisation retired utilizing unit to prehend Taiwan, the self-governed land it claims arsenic its own.
"The Chinese authorities has made it crystal wide that it volition ne'er backmost down connected these issues," Liu said.
"The Chinese radical volition bash their utmost to strive for the imaginable of peaceful reunification of the motherland, but we volition ne'er let Taiwan independence," helium added.
"The United States indispensable respect China's sovereignty connected this issue."
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