{"id":130369,"date":"2025-06-01T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130369"},"modified":"2025-06-01T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:17:34","slug":"not-mere-pawns-in-big-power-rivalry-asean-asserts-agency-at-shangri-la-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130369","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not mere pawns\u2019 in big power rivalry: Asean asserts agency at Shangri-La forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAsean defence chiefs emphasised individual agency at the Shangri-La Dialogue, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth called on Indo-Pacific allies to boost military spending and cooperation to counter what he called the \u201creal\u201d threat posed by China.<br \/>\nAmong them was Philippine Secretary of National Defence Gilberto Teodoro Jnr, who asserted that his country, a US treaty ally, was not a mere pawn with \u201cno strategic agency\u201d.<br \/>\nDespite China\u2019s pursuit of being a superpower, \u201cwe must not overemphasise&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3312661\/not-mere-pawns-big-power-rivalry-asean-asserts-agency-shangri-la-dialogue?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 PostAsean defence chiefs emphasised individual agency at the Shangri-La Dialogue, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth called on Indo-Pacific allies to boost military spending&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\/130369"}],"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=130369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}