Vice-President Mike Pence spelt out in a key speech on Thursday what the United States sees as a "whole-of-government" approach by China to use political, economic, military and propaganda tools to advance its influence in the US - and to turn President Donald Trump's support base against him.
But the President will not back down, Mr Pence asserted, to applause from the audience at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
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