China should be stabilising force in Asia: Ng Eng Hen


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BEIJING - Singapore’s Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen has urged China to continue to be a stabilising force in Asia, especially when geopolitics has become fractious and global problems threaten security. The two countries will in 2023 step up military exchanges such as study visits and resume army and navy exercises, said Mr Ng while on a two-day visit to Xi’an in Shaanxi province, where he held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe on Friday. They last met in June in Singapore at the inaugural Singapore-China Defence Ministers’ Dialogue, where they inked agreements on military education for officers and...