The absence of the U.S. defense secretary marks the first time in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s history that an ...

America’s Pentagon chief will not be in attendance when more than 50 other defense leaders meet this week to coordinate ...

The drama of Hegseth’s remarks, though, likely won’t be as intense as it could be, as he’ll be unable to look at China’s ...

The Shangri-La Dialogue last week featured a record number of Europeans in attendance and was headlined by French President ...

China indicated it will not send its top military diplomat to a key defense forum in Asia for the first time since 2019, ...

China’s decision to skip ministerial-level representation at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue marks a return to a more ...

SINGAPORE - Almost everyone was talking about China at the Shangri-La Dialogue this weekend. The main question: Why did ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will attend the annual Shangri-La Dialogue this week in Singapore, where he is scheduled to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's defence minister Dong Jun will skip a major Asian security forum this weekend at which U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will make his debut, instead sending a lower-level ...

China will send a People’s Liberation Army National Defence University delegation instead. Read more at straitstimes.com.

While playing up the U.S.’s enduring commitment to the Indo-Pacific region, Hegseth took swipes at the absence of China’s ...