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SINGAPORE \u2014 At the end of Pete Hegseth\u2019s speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia\u2019s largest defense summit, America\u2019s defense secretary argued some members of the crowd should focus elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe would much prefer that the overwhelming balance of European investment be on that continent,\u201d he said during a question and answer session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegseth\u2019s response addressed one of the core themes at a conference typically focused on Asian security alone. Since the war in Ukraine began in 2022, more Europeans have traveled to Singapore each year as a symbol of their commitment to the region, seen as increasingly important to their own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until this January, the United States welcomed that attention \u2014 but no longer. In the second Trump administration, parts of America\u2019s government have grown more skeptical of a European military presence around Asia. Some policy officials in the Pentagon have actively discouraged it. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the conference last week featured a record number of Europeans in attendance and was headlined by French President Emmanuel Macron. While there, a wide share of officials from both regions defended Europe\u2019s role in Asia, something even Hegseth acknowledged in his remarks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge, officials said, will be defining that role at a time when Europeans see the two regions as increasingly linked and when the United States wants its allies focused on their own backyards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a convergence zone right now,\u201d said Gilberto Teodoro, the Philippines secretary of national defense, in an interview. \u201cThis is the first Shangri-La Dialogue where we see a lot of European advocacy and a lot of American advocacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Clearly concerned\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Last year at the conference, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit and met with America\u2019s then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. For many in attendance, the appearance emphasized a new sense that the two regions shared a common sense of security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea was sending troops to fight alongside Russia, China was supplying much of the Kremlin\u2019s war machine and the West\u2019s response to Russia\u2019s invasion was thought to be a show of force against similar action around Taiwan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we consider that Russia could be allowed to take a part of the territory of Ukraine without any restriction, without any concern, without any reaction of the global order, how would you phrase what would happen in Taiwan,\u201d Macron said in his keynote speech last Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until January, this had also become the dominant view in Washington, pushing its allies in Europe to take the threat of China more seriously while also helping defend Ukraine. In the last year, countries from Britain to Italy have sent naval vessels to the Indo-Pacific, including the Taiwan Strait, as a show of their own military commitment to the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That demand signal collapsed with the election of Donald Trump, whose Pentagon has since called for Europe to take a far larger burden in defending the continent to allow America\u2019s military to focus more on the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, Hegseth himself left open a role for European militaries around Asia as part of a larger effort to deter China \u2014 something American military leaders have said is a key advantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is something to be said for the fact that China calculates the possibility and does not appreciate the presence of other countries on occasion,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cIf that is reflected in their calculus, then that\u2019s useful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.S. defense official, speaking with traveling press on the condition of anonymity, said that the answer is obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re clearly concerned about European presence,\u201d the official said of Beijing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different roles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some allies at the conference agreed with Hegseth\u2019s message that Europe should primarily focus on the defense of the continent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finland\u2019s Defense Minister Antti H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen, for example, listed the main concerns it country has with its own security: an 800-mile border with Russia and competition around the Arctic and Baltic Sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why our role in the Indo-Pacific Area cannot be so big,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen came to Singapore to meet with partners such as Singapore and South Korea about Finland\u2019s defense industry and intelligence sharing. Both are natural areas to cooperate, he argued, even if his country wouldn\u2019t commit major military forces to the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweden\u2019s defense Minister P\u00e5l Jonson attended the conference with a similar message on partnering with intelligence and weapons sales, he said. But he also came to stress why countries in the region should care about what happens in Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are here also to make the case: Why it is important to stand up for Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity and freedom,\u201d Jonson said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Indo-Pacific countries, such as South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, have been supporting Ukraine with military aid and training for the last three years, seeing Russia\u2019s invasion as a test of resolve for free countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judith Collins, New Zealand\u2019s defense minister, said her country is continuing its mission to train Ukrainian troops on the continent and could also assist in a peacekeeping mission if a peace deal is reached. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, New Zealand recently announced a major defense spending increase and is now aiming to spend 2% of GDP on the military by the early 2030s<\/a>. Part of that plan is motivated by Wellington\u2019s sense that it needs to take greater control over its own security, regardless of partnerships with other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe comment that\u2019s been made to me by one of the NATO ministers is: \u2018We have a NATO-first policy.\u2019 My answer to that was: \u2018So where does that leave us?\u2019\u201d Collins said in an interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe answer is: doing more for ourselves with our friends in our region \u2014 as well as being good contributors to peace in Europe,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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