SINGAPORE - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday urged Asian nations to do more to defeat a global terrorist threat and to ensure that Afghanistan not be allowed to slip back into chaos.
His remarks to the annual Shangri-la conference on international security touched only lightly on China, whose military buildup had been a central focus of previous conferences. And while he mentioned the war in Iraq he focused more on broader themes of terrorism and U.S. commitments in Asia.
"In particular, the challenge posed by terrorists inspired by radical ideologies cannot be overcome by any one nation - no matter how wealthy or powerful," he said, alluding to U.S. efforts to …
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