US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth | world News

Singapore: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday assured allies in Indo-Pacific that they would not be left alone to face growing military and economic pressures from China.He said Washington fought his defense abroad, which sees Pentagon as rapidly developed threats by Beijing, especially in his aggressive trend towards Taiwan.China has conducted several exercises to test what a blockade will look like a self-governing island, which Beijing claims that it and the US have promised to defend.China’s army “rehearsal for real deal”, Hegseth said in a main speech at a security conference in Singapore.“We are not going into sugarcane, this danger is China real. And it can be adjacent.” China has a goal of being able to carry Taiwan by force when necessary by 2027, a time limit that is seen by experts as a more asphalt goal than the deadline of a hard war.But China has also developed a refined man-made island in the South China Sea to support the new military post and create highly advanced hypersonic and space capabilities, running the US to create its own space-based “Golden Dome” missile defense.Speaking in a global security conference Shangri-La dialogue organized by the International Institute for Security Studies, Hegseth said that China is no longer building its military forces to take Taiwan, “it is” actively training for it every day “.Hegseth also called China for his ambitions in Latin America, especially its efforts to increase its influence on the Panama Canal.He repeated a pledge to increase American military capabilities in the region by previous administrators to provide a stronger preventive.While both Obama and the Biden administration committed Prashant to pive – and even established new military agreements throughout the region – a complete change was never felt.Instead, American military resources from Indo-Pacific regularly have been drawn to support military needs in the Middle East and Europe, especially since the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.In the first few months of President Donald Trump’s second term, this is also a case.Indo-Pacific countries caught in the middle have tried to balance relations with both the US and China over the years.Beijing is a primary trading partner for many, but is also apprehensive as a regional bullying, partly due to its growing aggressive claims on natural resources such as important fisheries.Hegseth warns that both sides take risks, demanding American military support and Chinese economic support.“CCP (Chinese Communist Party) beware of leverage,” Hegseth said.China usually sends its own Defense Minister to this conference – but this year in a snub and irregular tariff war in the US has ignited with Beipp, its minister Dong was not attended in June, some US delegations said that its purpose was to capitalize.“We are this morning. And nobody else,” said Hegseth.He urged the countries of the region to now pressurize their GDP to contribute to increase the same defense spending as 5 percent of European countries.“We all should share our share,” Hegseth said.It is not clear whether the US cannot suppress China as the region’s primary economic driver or not. But Hegseth’s push follows Trump’s Middle East travel, resulting in billions of dollars in new defense agreements.Hegseth said that American support for Indo-Pacific nations would not be based on any situation on local governments, which aligns its cultural or climate issues with the West.