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China president Xi Jinping (Photo: Kevin Frayer via Getty Images) By: ShilpaSharma CHINA is a “pacing challenge” for the US and it is “really important” for America to improve relations with its allies in the Indo-Pacific region, defence secretary Lloyd Austin said. “China is, in fact, our pacing challenge and it is my priority focus,” Austin told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee during a hearing on the 2022 budget request for the Defense Department on Thursday (17). Austin said the China taskforce he had set up, to focus on the issue, completed its work last week. “My first trip...
