Banyan | Asian security

Dust-up at the Shangri-La

China squares up to America and Japan at a regional security forum

By Banyan | SINGAPORE

TEMPERS frayed rather alarmingly at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual forum for Asia's defence establishments, held in one of the eponymous hotels, in Singapore. First Japan and then America criticised China. Then China reciprocated in furious terms.

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