Lloyd Austin expected to meet with Chinese counterpart in Singapore

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart in person for the first time at a conference in Singapore this week.

Austin, who will be in Singapore for the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting this week, and then briefly in Cambodia and France, is continuing the Biden administration‘s effort to decrease tension with China.

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