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

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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...