WASHINGTON – The United States has unveiled new defense strategy shiftingits priorities from terrorism to countering China and Russia.
Presenting the new strategy in Washington, Defense Secretary Jim Mattisalso called China and Russia “revisionist powers that “seek to create aworld consistent with their authoritarian models.”
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking at a newsconference at the United Nations, said the United States is using aconfrontational approach.
He said we are open for dialogue and prepared to discuss military doctrines.
China’s US embassy while criticizing the strategy, said Beijing seeksglobal partnership not global dominance.