China urges US to shun ‘cold war’ mindset in bilateral ties

Bloomberg

China’s National Defense Ministry said the US should abandon a “Cold War” mindset and view Chinese national security and military efforts “rationally and objectively.”
The instigators of militarisation of the South China Sea are “other countries” that don’t seem to want to see peace in the region and are using the banner of “navigational freedom” to undertake military activities in a tyrannical manner, ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said in a statement.
The statement was in response to a US Defense Department strategy report, released last week, that singled out China’s military modernization and expansion in the South China Sea as key threats to US power. China has undertaken massive land reclamation in the contested waterway that hosts $5 trillion in trade a year, to strengthen its claim to more than 80 percent of the area. That has strained ties with other claimant states, such as Vietnam, Philippines, as well as the US.
The National Defence ministry’s statement came shortly after China’s Foreign Ministry vowed to take “necessary measures” to safeguard its sovereignty after a US warship entered waters surrounding the Huangyan Island in the South China Sea.