China Lashes Out At US Defense Secretary Criticisms

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING (AP) -- China on Monday lashed out at criticism from U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accusing him of harboring a Cold War mentality and saying Beijing has no interest in "playing a role in a Hollywood movie" of Washington's design.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters Carter's comment last week that China was creating a "Great Wall of self-isolation" was merely an attempt to provide cover for U.S. plans to deploy additional military forces to the Asia-Pacific region.

Carter's remarks "laid bare the stereotypical U.S. thinking and U.S. hegemony," Hua said at a daily news briefing.

"Indeed, there are some in the U.S. who live physically in the 21st century, but whose minds are stuck in the in the Cold War era," she said.

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[cstanleytech]

1. Odd I dont recall the US building artifical islands in international waters in an effort to

try an establish bogus claims to a region that has countries far closer in the area that have a far more legitimate claim.

[Odin2005]

2. China can go fuck itself.

[BunkieBandit]

3. Oh, so that's where North Korea learned how to bloviate.

[Feeling the Bern]

4. Time to play that age old Chinese game: Save! That! Face! Starring your favorite host and mine

Da Sha Gua. （大傻瓜