Beijing has protested the Pentagon's national strategy report that "smears" China as the primary security threat to the United States, China's defence ministry said on Friday.
"The countries that stubbornly prioritise their own interests above anyone else and gang up on an 'integrated deterrence' in the Asia Pacific are the real 'pacing challenge' to the international system and the region," ministry spokesman Tan Kefei said, using phrases from the report.
