China needs security to develop and must modernise its military to make it a "Great Wall of Steel", President Xi Jinping said on Monday, amid mounting tensions with the United States. Speaking for the first time in his precedent-breaking third term as head of state, Xi called for China to step up its ability to safeguard national security and manage public security.
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