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A story of two stories: China and America’s defense chiefs agree to disagree

Just days after the US and Chinese defense chiefs held “constructive” face-to-face talks, the two used speeches at Asia’s top regional security conference this weekend to send markedly different messages – an indication that the two superpowers continue to talk past each other. amid their escalating rivalry.

While US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin praised Washington’s deepening network of security partnerships as defining a “new era of security” in the Indo-Pacific, Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun used his speech Sunday at the Shangri -La Dialogue in Singapore to create ‘exclusive military alliances’ and attempts to create ‘bloc confrontation’.

โ€œSeveral small circles targeting other countries cannot make our region more secure and can only create more tension,โ€ Dong said in his debut speech at the forum, accusing Washington of โ€œhegemonic behavior.โ€

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