News Snapshot:
SINGAPORE, June 12 (Bloomberg): Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe warned that the US’s Indo-Pacific strategy was pushing the two sides toward confrontation, criticizing his American counterpart’s attempt to rally the region around Washington’s vision. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin called for an Asia that is free of "aggression and bullying,” targeting China as he laid out America’s vision for the region to security leaders in a defense forum. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy cast the war in Ukraine as threat to the global order, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin had treated the country as a colony. Both the US and China...
