(Reuters) – US and China trade jibes as military tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies, with the US Secretary of Defense promising not to “give an inch” in the Pacific and China saying Washington risked the lives of soldiers. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper listens …
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