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‘China’s Taiwan’: Beijing’s defence minister rails against ‘smearing and interfering’ US

China's defence minister, Wei Fenghe, at the Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore.
China's defence minister, Wei Fenghe, at the Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore. Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

China will “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwan from declaring independence, the country’s defence minister has vowed in a speech amid his counterparts from other countries including the United States.

“We will fight at all cost and we will fight to the very end. This is the only choice for China,” Wei Fenghe told the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, where he called Taiwan “first and foremost China’s Taiwan”.

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