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BEIJING <\/span>\u2013 Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun will skip this week\u2019s Shangri-La Dialogue, after Beijing on May 28 said it is sending a delegation of \u201cexperts and scholars\u201d from the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) to the security forum.<\/p>\n China will be represented by officials from PLA-run research institutes and the navy, Defence Ministry spokesman Jiang Bin said on May 28. In 2025, Beijing had also dispatched a similar and relatively low-level delegation to the event.<\/p>\n This marks the second year<\/span><\/a> that Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun will be skipping the event. It offers rare opportunities for interactions between Chinese and US defence chiefs.<\/p>\n At the 2025 gathering in Singapore, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth called China a threat in the Indo-Pacific and urged Asian allies to step up defence spending, irking Beijing. Officials in Beijing said such comments vilified China and criticised Washington for creating tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n Mr Hegseth will address the forum this week.<\/p>\n China-US military ties remain tense, with limited and cautious efforts to rebuild communication channels after a cut-off in 2022 over then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s visit to the democratically governed island of Taiwan over which Beijing claims sovereignty.<\/p>\n Earlier in May, China\u2019s Ministry of Defence said it is ready to work with the US side to strengthen dialogue, manage differences, build trust and dispel misgivings following a summit in Beijing.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring US President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to China, the Chinese and US defence chiefs exchanged views on relations between the two militaries and issues of common concern,\u201d Mr Jiang said on May 28.<\/p>\n Mr Hegseth and Mr Dong were spotted chatting via interpreters at a state banquet held for Mr Trump in Beijing.<\/p>\n China began participating in the Shangri-La Dialogue in 2007 and has sent its defence minister a handful of times, including in 2022, 2023 and 2024, with defence ministers Wei Fenghe, Li Shangfu and Dong Jun having travelled to Singapore for the event.<\/p>\n Mr Wei and Mr Li \u2013 Mr Dong\u2019s predecessors \u2013 have both been purged in a widening anti-corruption campaign in the Chinese military. The pair were both sentenced to death \u200cwith a two-year reprieve<\/span><\/a> earlier in May.<\/p>\n The Chinese delegation in 2026 is likely to face pointed questions at the forum about how sweeping corruption purges of senior officers are affecting the military\u2019s combat readiness, foreign military attaches said. REUTERS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n BEIJING \u2013 Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun will skip this week\u2019s Shangri-La Dialogue, after Beijing on May 28 said it is sending a delegation of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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