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Major General Meng Xiangqing, of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), listens at a plenary session at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on May 31, 2026. (Photo: Reuters/Caroline Chia ...

Nations seem to accept that they need to boost their defense spending. Several countries traded barbs with China, which again sent a relatively low-level delegation to the event. Ukraine may be far ...

The world faces challenges from “hegemonism” and “bloc confrontation” driven by “certain countries”, China’s delegation to Asia’s premier security conference said on Saturday, without directly naming ...

India has underscored its strategic priorities for a stable and secure Indo-Pacific through high-level diplomatic outreach and academic engagement in Singapore.In a post on X on Friday, the defence ...

Germany's chief of defense General Carsten Breuer's comments came after China's defense minister Dong Jun skipped the conference for a second straight year, with Beijing sending a lower-level ...

Defence ministers, military chiefs, diplomats and analysts have gathered in Singapore this weekend for the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, where regional security challenges will be discussed and a flurry ...

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been discussing key foreign policy issues for Washington at a defence summit in Singapore. On Saturday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Hegseth commented ...

Should any foreign policy observer make the mistake of sitting beside me at this week’s Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) and asking rhetorically – as they always do – what good comes out of such “talkshops” ...

SINGAPORE: China will send a delegation from the People's Liberation Army National Defence University to this year's Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, marking the second straight year Beijing has ...

BEIJING, May 28 (Reuters) - Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun will skip this week's Shangri-La Dialogue, after Beijing on Thursday said it is sending a delegation of "experts and scholars" from the ...

China has never been a fan of the Shangri-La Dialogue. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) disliked the structure of the security summit, distrusted the politics surrounding it and bristled at what it ...