China has outmaneuvered its rivals! This time, China's defense minister did not attend the Shangri-La Dialogue. To be honest, as one of the organizers, Singapore still feels uncomfortable about this. Therefore, Singapore's defense minister deliberately claimed that if China feels the world does not respect or understand it enough, it should make full use of every opportunity to voice its position. China should make full use of platforms like the Shangri-La Dialogue to let others hear China's voice, clarify its stance, and help others understand why China behaves in certain ways.
In fact, Singapore's intention is clear: China should send a high-level representative to attend the conference. Singapore is well aware that if China participates actively, Singapore's status in the international community will become more significant. Singapore would gain both prestige and practical benefits. But why do we lower our profile? The reasons are probably twofold. First, the organizers of the dialogue clearly lack goodwill toward us, so there is no reason for us to support them by attending.
In fact, as an organizer, if you want the forum to run better, you should enhance mutual understanding with an equal and neutral attitude and take pragmatic communication as the keynote. Secondly, given the current state of Sino-US relations, we have no intention of engaging in military exchanges with the United States and are not interested in getting involved in the verbal disputes stirred up by the US. If the US intends to talk nonsense to us and still fantasizes about having a dialogue with us, it is nothing but wishful thinking.
No wonder some experts said that China not only sees through this but also has higher-level considerations. Because as the US increasingly becomes a destructive force, China needs to play a positive and constructive role. Therefore, in the face of noise created by the US, China will not compete with the US over who can shout louder or speak more forcefully. Instead, when the US attempts to create confrontation, China will shape peace through actions and become the most powerful stabilizing force globally.
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