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Secretary Hegseth Speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025 in Singapore, May 31, 2025

May 31, 2025 · Department of War · 0:46:22

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What happened

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025 in Singapore, dated May 30, 2025 (EDT) / May 31, 2025 (Singapore) in the Department of War’s description of the live session (uploaded May 31, 2025). The department describes the Dialogue, hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, as an opportunity to discuss the region’s most pressing security challenges. The department’s short clip feed of the same address is recorded in this site’s index as an alternate source, not a separate page.

Why it matters

The Shangri-La Dialogue is the Asia-Pacific’s principal defense forum — Hegseth’s 2025 address is his first-year Indo-Pacific posture speech on the record, preceding the 2026 edition paged separately on this site.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “LIVE: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025 in Singapore.” uploaded May 31, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.