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Pete Hegseth

Opinion & Features

150 days into the Iran war, Trump seems to have no good options

2026-08-02T10:00:00.000Z
Hegseth listed Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam among those that are stepping up.
Singapore
SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE 2026

US’ Hegseth hails Asian partners for boosting security spending; omits Taiwan in roll call

2026-05-31T07:02:29.000Z
Major General Meng Xiangqing (front, left), the head of the Chinese official delegation, leaving a special session at the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30.
Global Enterprise
NEWS ANALYSIS

What China hears in Hegseth’s Shangri-La Dialogue speech

2026-05-31T01:11:28.000Z
China's Defence Minister Dong Jun at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May 31, 2024.
International

China’s defence minister again skips Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore attended by US’ Hegseth

2026-05-29T03:58:02.000Z
Pete Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February, about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defence Industrials Active ETF.
International

US Defence Secretary Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack, FT reports

2026-03-31T00:58:09.000Z
“This is not Iraq, this is not endless,” Hegseth said. “Our generation knows better and so does this president.
International

Hegseth denies Iran campaign will turn into endless war

2026-03-02T15:16:58.000Z
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking in May at the Shangri-La defence conference in Singapore, warned that China was “credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.”
International

Pentagon chief Hegseth set to visit Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and South Korea

2025-10-26T22:20:58.000Z
In a video posted on X on Friday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was initiating a two-week review to ensure China-based engineers were not working on any other cloud services contracts across the Defence Department.
International

Microsoft to stop using engineers in China for tech support of US military, Hegseth orders review 

2025-07-19T00:13:29.000Z
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