It is customary for Chinese military delegations to push back against American messaging at the Shangri-La Dialogue ... the rebuttal was not led by China’s defence minister, but its military ...

It was reported that on Saturday, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, in which he exaggerated the so-called "China threat" and made negative remarks ...

“There is no reason to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real. And it could be imminent,” Hegseth said in a speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defense forum, in Singapore.

Speaking in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defence conference, Hegseth said that the threat posed by China was “real and could be imminent”. He said this included ...