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Pentagon chief Esper: China’s economic power is ‘what concerns me the most’

By Russ Read
Published September 19, 2019 7:03pm ET
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Pentagon chief Esper: China’s economic power is ‘what concerns me the most’
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper leaves the Meuse-Argonne cemetery, northeastern France, after a remembrance ceremony, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. | (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Defense Secretary Mark Esper accused China of using its economic power as political leverage with smaller nations.

The problem is particularly prevalent in the Asia-Pacific, Esper told the audience Wednesday at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in Maryland’s Oxon Hill.

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