(Bloomberg) -- China accused the U.S. of undermining global stability, as the country released its first defense white paper since Chinese President Xi Jinping initiated a sweeping military overhaul in 2015.
The paper titled “China’s National Defense in the New Era,” in a reference to a key Xi slogan, said that U.S. had provoked competition among major countries. The language from the previous report, which focused efforts to improve military-to-military cooperation between the world’s two largest economies.
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