SINGAPORE: US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Singapore on Thursday ahead of a regional security summit likely to be dominated by China's continued military buildup in the South China Sea.
His attendance at this weekend's Shangri-La Dialogue is part of a broader US diplomatic push to build and maintain alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, which America sees as key to its own long-term economic and security interests.
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