Dialogue and accommodation will ensure peace and stability

In recent years, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore has become a venue for some Western countries to point accusing fingers at China over sensitive regional issues, such as the South China Sea.

This year, thanks to the United States and a few of its regional allies, such groundless accusations continued to be heard at the three-day event, which concluded on Saturday. The repeated indictments against China run counter to the forum's original intention of seeking common ground for regional security issues and promoting security cooperation.

Defense ministers from the US, Japan, France and Australia talked at length about the rules-based world order at the dialogue, with US Secretary of Defense James Mattis taking the lead in accusing China of disregarding the rules in the South China Sea.