Indo-Pacific Strategy: China and Shangri-La Dialogue

indo-pacific strategy: Amid an escalating trade conflict between China and the US, US President Donald Trump's administration is determined to invest more resources in implementing the Indo-Pacific Strategy, especially in the field of security, which has not only alarmed Beijing, but also unsettled most countries in the region, according to Global Times China. The Pentagon's description of China in the IPSR is a clich - accusing China of being a revisionist power and of seeking Indo-Pacific regional hegemony in the near-term and, ultimately global preeminence in the long term. On the same day, US Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan explained the main points of this report when he spoke at the 18th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore which was held between May 31 and June 2. Such arbitrary and malicious accusations have become part of the new US narrative on China. First, the Pentagon is intensively preparing for a war against China. Yet the report also reveals some disturbing trends in US policy on China. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.