If the US seeks ‘to contain China’, the country will firmly defend its interests, top Chinese legislature official says

A top official of China’s legislature said the country will firmly defend its interests if the US seeks to contain it, and hinted it will not reduce military spending in the coming year despite the Covid-19 outbreak.Zhang Yesui, a spokesman for the National People’s Congress Foreign Affairs Committee, met the press on Thursday evening in Beijing to announce the agenda for the upcoming parliamentary session and took questions from reporters.“If the US insists on a Cold War thinking, and carries…

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