China’s premier annual defense conference, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, was held from Tuesday to Thursday this week. A major topic of discussion among the roughly 2,000 attendees was the security risk posed by artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
\n\nChina touts the forum, now into its 13th year, as an opportunity for “small and medium-sized countries” to weigh in on defense issues. It was launched in 2006 as an answer to the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ famous Shangri-La Dialogue, and there is considerable overlap in the guest lists for the two events.
\n\nMost of the attendees at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum are from Asian nations, but other parts of the world are represented. This year’s event included a spat between representatives from Saudi Arabia and Iran over the latter country’s wanton attacks on its Middle Eastern neighbors.
\n\nThe U.S. had a delegation at the Xiangshan Forum, led by Brig. Gen. Stacy Kihara, a senior defense official with the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
\n\nChinese Defense Minister Dong Jun issued a call for all nations to “avoid provocative acts” and curb “latent manifestations of hegemony, militarism, and historical revisionism,” but he was not talking to the Iranians — he was taking a thinly…
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