US says China, Russia working to undermine American interests

By AFP
December 18, 2017

Washington: President Donald Trump´s first "National Security Strategy" has pilloried China and Russia as "revisionist powers" bent on rolling back American interests and values, according to the hard-hitting text released Monday.

"China and Russia want to shape a world antithetical to US values and interests," the strategy document states, using remarkably biting language.

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"China seeks to displace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, expand the reaches of its state-driven economic model, and reorder the region in its favor," according to the text.

"Russia seeks to restore its great power status and establish spheres of influence near its borders."

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