{"id":704436,"date":"2026-05-30T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704436\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:25:22","slug":"pete-hegseth-at-shangri-la-dialogue-us-defence-secretary-demands-allies-increase-military-spending-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704436\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth at Shangri-La Dialogue: US Defence Secretary demands allies increase military spending to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore | US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has praised Australia and other allies for \u201cstepping up\u201d and boosting military spending but rebuked others wanting a \u201cfree ride on the generosity of the American taxpayer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth on Saturday urged Asian allies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/foreign-affairs\/why-trump-demands-more-from-australia-s-defence-budget-20250603-p5m4gp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ramp up military spending<\/a> to counter China\u2019s growing power and prevent its dominance in the region, warning of \u201crightful alarm\u201d over its rapid military buildup.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg and Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singapore | US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has praised Australia and other allies for \u201cstepping up\u201d and boosting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-704436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}