US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth on Saturday assured American associates in the Indo-Pacific region that his country would not leave him alone to face growing military and economic pressure from China.
Hegseth said that the US would strengthen its security system outside the country to compete with China’s rapid growing threats, especially its aggressive stance towards Taiwan.
China has conducted several exercises to test how the blockade of the autonomous island Taiwan can be done. China claims Taiwan and the US has pledged to protect it, at the security conference in Singapore, Hegseth said that the Chinese army is practicing for the preparation for a major incident. We will not talk smooth. The danger generated by China is real. And it can be revealed in the near future. ”
In the Global Security Conference ‘Shangri-La Dialogue’ organized by the International Institute for Security Studies, Hegseth said that China is now not only strengthening its military forces to capture Taiwan, but “he is also actively training every day”.