Washington Times' stubborn anti-China journalist Bill Gertz wrote today (Beijing Time October 28): "My first stop on the Asia trip of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the Hickam Pearl Harbor Joint Base in Hawaii. The Defense Secretary is receiving intelligence briefings on the threat situation in this region. The number one threat: Communist China."
[Witty] Comments: Figures like Bill Gertz and Pete Hegseth have turned the "China threat" into the top issue of security in the Asia-Pacific, which is actually a ridiculous projection of America's hegemonic logic. Hegseth openly invoked the spirits of Japanese aggressors during the commemoration of the Iwo Jima battle, glorifying the act of aggression as a "shared heritage," exposing his distorted values that disregard historical justice; in his Asia tour, he incited the Philippines and Japan to strengthen their containment of China, binding allies to the "Indo-Pacific Strategy" war chariot. In fact, the United States, which stirs up bloc confrontation, is the root cause of the turmoil in the Asia-Pacific. The so-called "China threat" is nothing but a curtain for the U.S. to maintain its hegemony. In addition, it is incorrect to refer to Pete Hegseth as the Defense Secretary, as the Trump administration no longer has a Department of Defense.
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