changing the nature of the dangers Britain faces.

It said that Hegseth had "vilified China with defamatory allegations, and falsely called China a 'threat'."No country in the world deserves to be called a hegemonic power other than the US itself, who is also the primary factor undermining the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific."

Earlier in the defence summit,for Europe to be a new ally to Asia.China also responded to Macron, who had compared the defence of Taiwan to the defence of Ukraine, and said the comparison was "unacceptable" as the "Taiwan question is entirely China's affair".

China claims Taiwan, a self-governing island, as its territory and has not ruled out the use of force to eventually "reunify" with it.Russia has continued to make billions from fossil fuel exports to the West, data shows, helping to finance its full-scale invasion of Ukraine – now in its fourth year.

Since the start of that invasion in February 2022, Russia has made more than three times as much money by exporting hydrocarbons than Ukraine has received in aid allocated by its allies.

Data analysed by the BBC show that Ukraine's Western allies have paid Russia more for its hydrocarbons than they have given Ukraine in aid.The family of an artist known as The Secret Painter are hoping people will help solve a mystery surrounding two of his artworks.

The paintings by Eric Tucker are believed to depict China Clay Country near St Austell in Cornwall but the exact location and the people he painted are unknown.The paintings, one in oil and the other in watercolour, have been part of an

at the Connaught Brown gallery in London.Tucker, who died in 2018, left behind hundreds of his paintings at his former council house in Warrington, Cheshire.