China Lashes Out At US Defense Secretary Criticisms

China on Monday lashed out at criticism from U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accusing him of harboring a Cold War mentality and saying Beijing has no interest in "playing a role in a Hollywood movie" of Washington's design. Carter's remarks "laid bare the stereotypical U.S. thinking and U.S. hegemony," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing. "Indeed, there are some in the U.S. who live physically in the 21st century, but whose minds are stuck in the in the Cold War era," she said.