The Washington Times:
China’s Defense Ministry lashed out anew Wednesday over Washington’s deployment two years ago of a sophisticated missile defense system to South Korea, asserting in a major new strategy white paper that the move “severely undermined the regional strategic balance” in Northeast Asia.
In its first major outline of Chinese defense priorities since President Xi Jinping came to power more than six years ago, Beijing also said it was determined to prevent “Taiwan independence” and to combat separatist forces in China’s far west Xinjiang region, as well as in Tibet.
