Shangri-La security dialogue

(June 3): Smoking cigarettes at Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel, the site of Asia’s most prominent annual defence forum, members of China’s military found themselves surprisingly upbeat this weekend.

(June 5): Chinese Admiral Sun Jianguo used a speech to global defense chiefs to tout his military’s cooperation in the western Pacific, while taking aim at the US for sailing ships near reefs China claims in the disputed South China Sea.