{"id":72067,"date":"2025-06-01T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/01\/china-accuses-pete-hegseth-of-sowing-division-in-asia-in-speech-filled-with-provocations"},"modified":"2025-06-01T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:53:43","slug":"china-accuses-pete-hegseth-of-sowing-division-in-asia-in-speech-filled-with-provocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72067","title":{"rendered":"China accuses Pete Hegseth of sowing division in Asia in speech \u2018filled with provocations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US defence secretary \u2018vilified China with defamatory allegations\u2019 at Shangri-La Dialogue<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government has accused Pete Hegseth of trying to \u201csow division\u201d in the Asia Pacific region over his speech at a Singapore defence conference where he warned China was a potentially \u201cimminent\u201d threat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/31\/pete-hegseth-calls-on-asia-to-boost-military-spending-in-face-of-imminent-threat-from-china-us-defence-secretary\">On Saturday Hegseth said<\/a> China was \u201ccredibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific\u201d, and was rehearsing for \u201cthe real deal\u201d of invading Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/01\/china-accuses-pete-hegseth-of-sowing-division-in-asia-in-speech-filled-with-provocations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US defence secretary \u2018vilified China with defamatory allegations\u2019 at Shangri-La DialogueChina\u2019s government has accused Pete Hegseth of trying to \u201csow division\u201d in the Asia Pacific region over his speech at a Singapore defence conference where he warned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,3277,74,554,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pete-hegseth","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72068,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72067\/revisions\/72068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}