BEIJING: Beijing rapped Washington Tuesday for its interventions in Asia, as tensions grow between the two powers over territorial disputes in the South China Sea and how to handle increasingly erratic North Korea.

Speaking at the 7th annual Xiangshan regional defense forum in Beijing, Chang Wanguan, China's defense minister, levied thinly veiled criticism at recent US involvement in Asia's trouble spots.

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