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‘Cold-war mentality’: Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu takes aim at US in first speech

Keynote address warns of intensifying arms race but says US-China conflict would be ‘unbearable disaster’

China’s new defence minister has used his first major speech to take aim at the US for intensifying an arms race in Asia, but warned that a war between the world’s two superpowers would be an “unbearable disaster”.

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