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China's government has accused Pete Hegseth of trying to "sow division" in the Asia Pacific region over his speech at a Singapore defence conference where he warned China was a potentially "imminent" threat. On Saturday Hegseth said China was "credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific", and was rehearsing for "the real deal" of invading Taiwan. "There's no reason to sugar coat it. The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent," the US defence secretary said in a keynote address at the Shangri-la Dialogue defence forum, calling for…
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