Gangster and Fox News fiction news reader turned politician, Pete Hegseth, called on Asian and Asean countries to raise their defence budget to 5% to counter a China threat. To many Asian and Asean countries, China is their biggest trading partner, the engine of growth in the region. Their relations with China are cordial and symbiotic, win win for both sides. China is NOT a threat to any Asian and Asean countries.
The real threat to peace and security in the region is the evil American Empire. China is not planning any war with any country, did not call any country threat or enemy. It is the warmongering American terrorists that is calling China a threat, that China is enemy, and the American terrorists are planning a war with China in 2027. Not only that, all the tension in the region, in Korea, Taiwan and the South China Sea are incited by the American terrorists, trying to provoke a war in the region. The American terrorists are not satisfied with the 3 wars they have started, in Ukraine, Gaza and against Iran. They want more wars.
It is for this reason that Asian and Asean countries must raise their defence budget to 5% in anticipation of a war in the region, with the Americans as the aggressor, the provocateur, the mastermind of all wars all over the world. No Asian or Asean countries are talking about war. There are differences like all countries everywhere, and these can be settled by negotiation and diplomacy, not resorting to wars like the white savages.
Asian and Asean countries should not be drawn into a war started by the American terrorists. They should increase their defence expenditure to deter the likes of the American terrorists and European savages wanting to set up an Asian NATO to control and rule the region, to reintroduce European colonialism in Asia.
The USA a real and imminent threat seeking to "fundamentally alter the region's status quo", to be the hegemon of the region, to rule the coloured people in the region. Asian and Asean states must be on high alert and be very suspicious and cautious of the ill intent and motive of the American terrorists. Wherever the American terrorists appear, there is tension and war. Get rid of the American terrorists and there will be peace.
The American rogue regime must not be allowed to start WW3. They just bombed Iran and continue to genocide the Palestinians. Such evil regime must not be allowed to deceive the world that they are for peace. Only the brain dead Anglophiles will believe in their vicious lies. They want to be ruled by the white men, they want Asean to be ruled by the white men.