US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has praised relations with Beijing as “better than they’ve been in many years”, while still piling pressure on Indo-Pacific allies to sharply boost defence spending to match “China’s historic military build-up”.
The defence secretary, speaking on Saturday at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, said Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing to see Xi Jinping this month, the first by a US president in nine years, was “truly historic”.
“Relations between the United States and China are better than they’ve been in many years,” Hegseth said in a speech that did not directly mention Taiwan, the main potential flashpoint between the US and China in the region.
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