Tensions between china and the west continue to heat up.

The UK foreign secretary is expected to give a major speech this week, which will urge China to come clean about its "biggest military spend up in peacetime."

It's thought China will have a stockpile of 1500 nuclear missile warheads by 2030.

International relations professor at Otago University, Robert Patman, joined Kate Hawkesby.

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Tensions between china and the west continue to heat up.
The UK foreign secretary is expected to give a major speech this week, which will urge China to come clean about its "biggest military spend up in peacetime."
It's thought China will have a stockpile of 1500 nuclear missile warheads by 2030.
International relations professor at Otago University, Robert Patman, joined Kate Hawkesby.
LISTEN ABOVE

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