China accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of espousing a “Cold War mentality” in a speech “filled with provocations” in ...

China has denounced U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for calling the Asian country a threat, accusing him of touting a ...

"China deplores and firmly opposes them and has protested strongly to the U.S. No country in the world deserves to be called ...

China's foreign and defense ministries issued angry statements after Hegseth called the People's Republic a "threat" at a ...

U.S. hegemony, established after the Soviet Union was defeated in the Cold War, is what China now challenges ... explicit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, describing "a peer competitor in ...

And an adversary like China learning details about the U.S. military's war plans could put national security at risk and undermine U.S. forces. But Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Musk’s ...

In a post on Musk’s X platform, Hegseth emphasized that “this is NOT a meeting about ‘top secret China war plans,’” denying a story published by The New York Times late Thursday.

Musk, Hegseth and President Donald Trump denied the report -- with Trump asserting that Musk would not be briefed on a war plan with China. "I don't want to show that to anybody. But certainly ...

But a brief word on the dismantling of a little-known Pentagon office that helped America win the Cold War. The Pentagon said late last week that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered “the ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth focused again on China’s presence in the Western Hemisphere Wednesday, one day after calling the world power a threat to the Panama Canal.

Hegseth’s visit, however, was far more than a bid to strengthen Manila’s loyalty in an election. It was a dramatic escalation of Washington’s preparations for war with China. The language of ...

China has denounced U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for calling the Asian country a threat, accusing him of touting a Cold War mentality ...