Chinese Defense Minister began to hold a security forum in Singapore

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The Chinese Defense Minister is expected to be in an unusual absence in the dialogue of Singapore in Singapore next week.

Chinese Singapore pointed out that Admiral Dong Jun, for five people familiar with the issue, will not participate in the annual forum of the IIS of the TANK.

IISS Shangri-La Dialogue has become the best gathering and main forum in Asia They will meet with the US and Chinese Defense MinistersIn particular, he did not send the best defense officers of any part to another country for more than a decade.

People familiar with the issue, said Dongun would not be known why he would not participate. President of France Emmanuel Macron will address the event on May 30.

One person was still possible to change the opinion of Beijing, but only two weeks before this forum said it was very difficult.

In recent years, the Chinese delegation criticizes the delegation from the Shangri, the US and Pacific Pacific officials and the people around the Taiwan and the South China Sea.

“The dialogue of Shangry is always worried because of Pla, because almost anyone living here in a fashion or another in a fashion or another,” he said.

“Although Beijing is how difficult the most defensive leaders in the region are the biggest threat,” said Rican, who is now a major in the thinking of the Marathon initiative.

US official said Pentagon would not participate in Dongun. The event is expected to be expected to be expected from the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The Chinese embassy in the United States did not meet the desire to comment.

Dongun is the impossible president comes as president Leaving the xi The six-member central military commission, who worked on the PLA, continued to clean up high-level officers.

Financial periods reported the last month of XI General O WeidongAmplal Miao Hua, the total number of two places after stopping the Admiral Miao Hua, another CMC member.

Last year, Dong was also examined, but remained in the role. Two people familiar with Dongu, Dong has conducted a preliminary investigation, but it turned out.

The decision not to send Singapore, Pekin, China is trying to benefit from the Global Trade War, and claims that China is a more reliable partner for the Indo-Pacific. Beijing, as a defender of the insulting of the United States, held a social media campaign.

Asian Security Specialist Zack Cooper, in the American Institute, the US president’s trade war, China used the Forum in Singapore as a more reliable partner for the Southern East Asia.

“Along with the questions around the meeting, the potential of the US allocation in this year’s meeting could become a dominant narrative. But now he is involved in Hegseth,” he said. “China seems to be more reliable and missed here to show itself as a great power in the region.”

PLA is expected to send a delegation to the forum led by a low-level defense official.