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THE annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore has long served as Asia’s premier strategic gathering, where defense ministers, military chiefs, diplomats and scholars attempt to decipher the evolving balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. This year’s edition was particularly significant mainly because of the closely watched speech of United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid a turbulent global environment. In many ways, Hegseth’s remarks offered the clearest indication yet of how the second Trump administration intends to approach security affairs in Asia.