China: US, UK, Australia 'severely damaging regional peace' with security partnership


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© Getty China on Thursday condemned the U.S., U.K. and Australia’s move to join a security partnership, saying it is “severely damaging region peace.”The partnership is "severely damaging regional peace and stability, intensifying an arms race, and damaging international nuclear nonproliferation efforts,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Thursday, according to Reuters. "China will closely watch the situation's development,” he added.ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display("dfp-ad-incontent_desk_1");});Lijian says countries shouldn’t be forming partnerships that directly target another nation, although all three countries did not mention China in the announcement of the move.One of the goals for the trilateral security partnership is to help Australia...