China kept a suspiciously low profile at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Friday, sending only a group of academics instead of Defense Minister Dong Jun or other top military officials.
This led Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles to suspect that Beijing did not want to answer tough questions about its massive military buildup or aggressive behavior.
“We’ve seen China engage in the biggest conventional military buildup in the world since the end of the Second World War, and that has not happened with a strategic reassurance for other countries,” Marles pointed out in an interview with Reuters on Friday.
“The global rules-based…
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