In response to a media inquiry regarding a secret internal guidance memo signed by the US defense secretary — which identifies China as the "only pacing threat," allegedly focuses on "deterring China's seizure of Taiwan," and shoring up US homeland defense — Zhang Xiaogang, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, said on Wednesday that China has taken note of relevant reports.
He stated that it appears the US is suffering from increasingly severe "paranoia over China." Viewing China as a threat is a grave strategic misjudgment that will only lead to disastrous consequences.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the US military to prioritize "deterring China's seizure of Taiwan" and shoring up homeland defense by "assuming risk" in Europe and other parts of the world, according to a secret internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative Heritage Foundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year, according to the Washington Post in late March.
It must be stressed that China will ultimately be reunified, and this is an unstoppable historical trend that no individual or force can prevent, Zhang emphasized.
