{"id":130324,"date":"2025-05-31T02:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130324"},"modified":"2025-05-31T02:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:43:24","slug":"at-shangri-la-dialogue-pete-hegseth-says-china-aims-to-alter-asias-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130324","title":{"rendered":"At Shangri-La Dialogue, Pete Hegseth says China aims to alter Asia\u2019s status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told Indo-Pacific defence chiefs that China wanted to \u201cfundamentally alter the region\u2019s status quo\u201d, and that American allies must step up defence investments.<br \/>\nSpeaking on Saturday in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia\u2019s premier defence conference, Hegseth said that the threat posed by China was \u201creal and could be imminent\u201d.<br \/>\nHe said this included its efforts to build the capacity to take over Taiwan by force by 2027.<br \/>\n\u201cPresident Trump has also said that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3312561\/shangri-la-dialogue-pete-hegseth-warns-china-aims-alter-indo-pacific-status-quo?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told Indo-Pacific defence chiefs that China wanted to \u201cfundamentally alter the region\u2019s status quo\u201d, and that American allies must&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}