At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Chinese scholars called for stable military ties with the US, emphasizing the importance of a consensus reached by the two countries' leaders amidst rising global security risks.

• Professor Meng Xiangqing of China's National Defense University stressed the need to translate leader-level consensus into concrete actions for healthy, stable, and sustainable military-to-military relations.
• US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged the constructive strategic stability vision as "real, substantive and meaningful."
• The tone of US defense discussions regarding China has become more cautious, with fewer negative references to topics like Taiwan and the South China Sea.