In a wide-ranging speech, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence accused China of using a “whole-of-government approach” to undermine the United States. The speech comes almost three months into the Trump administration’s trade war with Beijing.

CGTN’s Nathan King has more from our newsroom.

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To discuss all of this:

• Song Zhang is the Chief Correspondent for Shanghai Wen Hui Daily.
• Robert Hormats is vice chairman of Kissinger Associates and a former U.S. Undersecretary of State.
• Sourabh Gupta is a Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies.
• Qinduo Xu is a senior fellow with the Pangoal Institution.

For more:

In broad attack on China, US Vice President Pence offers scant evidence of election meddling https://t.co/e90OZx0cGf

— CGTN America (@cgtnamerica) October 4, 2018

Pence’s fiery China statement was basically "the Trump administration’s ‘evil empire’ speech," said a China expert https://t.co/zzFAANS3Kz

— Vox (@voxdotcom) October 4, 2018