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.

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

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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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...