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(From left) Armenia’s Defence Minister Suren Papikyan, Cambodia’s Defence Minister Tea Seiha, Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun, Vietnam’s National Defence Minister Phan Van Giang and Azerbaijan’s Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov attending the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on Sept 18.
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William Choong
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Fierce rhetorical clashes between American and Chinese scholars. A walkout by the Ukrainian defence attache and other officials as a Russian minister spoke. Participants swarming a Japanese professor with provocative questions over the country’s handling of its wartime history.
These could well have happened at the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), an annual defence ministerial summit held in Singapore. But the incidents took place at the recent Xiangshan Forum in Beijing
