Australia warns against China military buildup as U.S. calls on Canberra to spend more

Open this photo in gallery: Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles defended his government as having ‘engaged in the biggest increase in defence spending in the history of peacetime Australia.’Joeal Calupitan/The Associated Press Australia's top defence official has called on China to provide more transparency around its "extraordinary military buildup," as Washington urged Canberra to increase its own military budget to counter Beijing. Speaking Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering in Singapore of top Asia-Pacific military officials, Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said China had not provided other countries in the region any "strategic reassurance" around the massive expansion…