SINGAPORE: The US and Chinese military chiefs managed little more than a handshake before dinner during an annual defence conference in Singapore last year. This time around they’re aiming higher, but not by much.
The Shangri-La Dialogue starting Friday (May 31) in the city-state will be one of the first opportunities the wider world has to see new Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun in public, nearly a year after his predecessor was ousted amid corruption probes by President Xi Jinping’s government into the People’s Liberation Army.
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