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US Defense Secretary Pete HegsthGuaranteed Indo-Pacific Allies on Saturday that they will not be left alone to deal with addMilitary and economic pressure from ChinaWhile forced they also contributed their own defense.
He said Washington would strengthen the defenses abroad to prevent the Pentagon rapidly developing the threats of Beijing, especially with its aggressive stance in Taiwan. China conducts a lot of exercises to test what a blockade looks like a self-warning island, being claimed by Beijing as self and the US promised to protect.
China’s army “is rehearing for the real deal,” hegseth said a significant speech at a Singapore security conference. “We don’t go to sugarcoat this – the threat of China poses is true. And it can be close.”
The head of the Chinese delegation accused of being Hegseth to make “unstable accusations.”
“Some of the claims are perfectly made perfectly, some are away from the facts and some cases of a thief who cries that ‘stop the thief, vice president of National Defense University. He does not offer specific opposition.
“These actions are no more than the attempts to challenge trouble, prompting divisions and stimulate confrontation to inflict the Asia-Pacific region,” he said.
Hegseth says China trains to attack Taiwan
China has a stated intention to ensure its military capable of gettingTaiwanBy force if required by 2027, a deadline that experts can see more than a longing for a hard work deadline.
China also built sophisticated, artificialIslands of South China SeaTo support new military outposts and develop very high hypersonic and space, which drives the United States to make himselfSpaces-based “Golden Dome” Missile Defense.
Told the Shangri-LA dialogue, a global security conference hosted by the International Institute for security studies, Hegseth said China is not justStrengthening its military forcesTo take Taiwan, it is “active training for it, every day.”
Hegseth also called China for its ambitions in Latin America, especially efforts to increase the influence of Panama canal.
He encourages Indo-Pacific countries to increase defense expenditure to level similar to 5% of their gross domestic European countries that have been forced today to contribute.
“We need all we do,” he said hegseth.
After speech, the top diplomat of European Union pushes Hegseth’s comment that European countries fight Russia and China and China and China and Asia Security “
Questions About US Marriage in Indo-Pacific
He also repeated a voward held by previous administrations to strengthen US military in the Indo-Pacific to give a stronger control. While the two administrations of Obama and Biden have commitment to slow down the Pacific and build new military agreements across the region.
However, US military resources from Indo-Pacific are constantly tossing to support military requirements in Middle East and Europe, especially the wars ofUkraineandGaza. In the first few months ofPresident Donald Trump’sSecond term, that also happened.
In the last few months, the Trump administration earned a Patriot Missile Defense Battalion from Indo-Pacific who sent 73 guards guards sent to US-Mexgo Guards
Hegseth asked why the US picked up the resources if Indo-Pacific is the priority theater. He was not directly answered but said that transit of resources should be protected against Houthi missile attacks, and repairing illegal immigration protections in the US
At the same time, he emphasized the need for America’s allies and colleagues to maintain their own defense expenditures and preparation, saying that the US is not interested.
“Finally a strong, determined and competent network of allies and with our main strategic advantage,” he said. “China is jealous of all of us, and see what we can carry in protection, but it’s all to make sure we have a place by investing.”
Indo-Pacific countries obtained in between trying to balance US and China relations for years. Beijing is the primary trade mate for many, but also afraid of a regional bully, in part because of the more aggressive claims of critical fisters like critical fishing.
Hegseth cautiously played on both sides, looking for US military support and Chinese economic support, carried danger.
“Trusting in China’s economy deepens their disruption and complicate our defense space in defense in times of stress,” he said hegseth.
Asked how he reconciled Trump’s threat to the swift tariffs in the region, hegseth he “in the business of tanks, not trade.”
But Illinois Demackrat Sen. Tammy Duckworth, which is part of the delegation of Congress who attended Shangri-la, opposed to compulsion of allies in the region.
“The United States is not asked for people to choose between the US and the PRC,” said Duckwworth, in reference to the People’s Republic of China.
Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles accepted that Hegseth’s assurance is that Indo-Pacific is an American program and other countries to do in their part.
“The fact is that there is no effective balance of power in this region out of the United States, but we cannot leave it in the United States only,” he said.
However Marles suggested aggressive Trump Trump Trump trading policies. “The shock and destruction from the long tariff expensive and flow.”
China sent the delegation to the lower level
China usually sends his own minister of conference defense, but Dong Jun has not attended this year in a US snub with Trump Tariffs. His loss does not have something that the US delegation is intended to take advantage of.
“We’re here in the morning. And some are not,” he says hegseth.
A member of the Chinese delegation is requested how the US is surrendered if the Asean alliances are like Washington, Hegseth unrestricted to the “chiefs of the US on how previous administrations looked at this region.”
“We open our arms to countries across the spectrum – traditional allies, non-traditional allies,” he said.
He said US support does not require local governments to prompt the west of cultural issues or climate.
This story originally shown Fortune.com
