Hegseth says

Singapore – Defense Minister Pete Hegseth gave a strong warning Saturday about China’s threat to the status quo in Asia. He said the United States reunited its strength and guidelines to deter China and persuaded China’s neighbors and US allies to help.

“Everything must be clear that Beijing credibly prepares to use military violence to change the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific,” said Hegseth at the annual Shangri-La-Dialog, Top Defense Summit, the Civil and Military Officials compared to the annual Shangri-la-dialogue.

The United States is not looking for conflicts nor intend to “dominate or strangle China, to surround or to provoke,” emphasized Hegseth. “We are not looking for a change of regime.”

Peking offered previous US administrations similar assurances. But retired Chinese Senior Col. Zhou BoNow, a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, he said that Hegseth’s speech was “far more enemy than any of his predecessors in the Shangri-la dialog” and was infused with “ideological rivalry”.

Zhou adds that Hegseth’s speech in Singapore supports us allies more than Vice President Vances Comments At the Munich Security Conference in February. So Zhou asks: “What should we really believe?”

To suspend the US military husbandry on China

Hegseth said that the United States “reorganized the aggression through communist china”.

An implication of this is that the United States could withdraw Some of the 28,500 US troops in South Korea, which deal with China, including a potential conflict between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, which the Pentagon calls his “”Sens scenario from sole stimulation. “

The US interests could deviate from those South Korea because the south sees its main threat to North Korea.

“I think we will probably see a change in the force on the peninsula. I think the administration started to signal that quite openly,” says Zack CooperA senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, who took part in the Shangri-la dialog.

“I think the message of the Trump administration,” he added, “is that everything that matters South Korea in China is. And the reality is that the interests of the US South Korea go far beyond what South Korea does in China.”

Defense policy “America First”

Hegseth’s emphasis on the US priorities repeated a large part of President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric. The Defense Minister condemned the politics of the Biden government as “licked” and praised President Trump’s ingenuity as a dealmaker and efforts to seal his limits to an “invasion” of illegal immigrants.

“We are not here to put other countries under pressure, to take over our politics or ideology and to take over,” Hegseth told the assembled leaders and military officers.

Hegseth admitted that geography makes it necessary for Asian nations to rely economically on China while looking for defense with the USA

“But fit the leverage that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] Looking for this entanglement, “he warned.”

The Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that his country was not aligned and against great powers who cut out areas of influence. He said Malaysia would continue to welcome the US presence in the region, but continue to estimate that she is connected to China.

“What Southeast Asia needs is a dynamic balance,” he said, “enables cooperation without compulsion and balance without block policy.”

The European leader warns of double standards

In a speech in the forum before Hegseth spoke, French President Emmanuel Macron offered one criticism From US guidelines and encouraged the nations to maintain strategic autonomy in the middle of the US China rivality.

“We want to work together. But we don’t want to be dependent on what is allowed, what is not allowed and how our life will change due to the decision of a single person,” he said and apparently alluded to Trump.

Macron also leaned the double standard of defending-a self-managed island, which China claims as part of his territory, and left the Ukraine, a movement of which he said that it would undermine the United States’ own credibility.

China’s embassy in Singapore shot back on her Facebook page The “comparison of the Taiwanese question with Ukraine question is unacceptable” because the Taiwan problem of China is internal matter.

“If we use a double standard to look at a double standards,” he argued, “we still have a double standard.”

In response to Hegseth’s statements, the message said in A separate Facebook post That the USA “claims to protect peace and not to look for conflicts. We heard it. Let’s see what movements it require.”