China and U.S. Offer Rival Visions for Asia

Senior military officials from the United States and China used a conference in Singapore to push competing visions of Asia’s future security: a U.S.-led safety net of well-armed partnerships versus a region where China is the center of a new international order.

The U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and officials from allied countries argued — implicitly or explicitly — that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine showed that Asia should urgently embrace a network of U.S.-led alliances…