New US military budget focused on China despite border talk

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 17, 2019 12:10 am

WASHINGTON: Chinese bombers. Chinese hypersonic missiles. Chinese cyberattacks. Chinese anti-satellite weapons.

To a remarkable degree, the 2020 Pentagon budget proposal is shaped by national security threats that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has summarized in three words: “China, China, China.”

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