It is customary for Chinese military delegations to push back against American messaging at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s largest security summit. But this year’s response was different: the rebuttal was not led by China’s defence minister, but the country’s military academic institutions.
Beijing’s low-key attendance at the three-day forum in Singapore, which wrapped up on Sunday, was marked by the absence of the defence minister and the cancellation of a plenary session on China’s security,…
