US now regards China as its 'top security threat' as tensions grow

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THE US now views Beijing as the 'top security threat' as tensions escalate in the South China Sea, where China is reportedly interfering with oil and gas activities in waters disputed by Vietnam, writes Amanda Battersby. US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said that China's "repeated provocative actions aimed at the offshore oil and gas development of other claimant states threaten regional energy security and undermine the free and open Indo-Pacific energy market".