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Thank you MrConservative. With US Acting Defence Secretary Shanahan and the PRC Defense Minister Wei Fenghe both addressing the defence summit it will be a most interesting event.The Minister of Defence and a senior NZDF officer traditionally attend the Shangri-La Dialogue as well as the NZDF defence attache to Singapore who is a Colonel equivalent.
Shanahan has previously said “China aims to steal its way to a China-controlled global technological infrastructure, including 5G” and “Huawei exemplifies the Chinese Communist Party’s systemic, organized and state-driven approach to achieve global leadership in advanced technology”.
Fenghe is famous for his quote at the Xiangshan Forum that "China will never give up an inch of its territory, whether the self-ruled island of Taiwan it claims as its own, or in the disputed waters of the South China Sea"