For starters, the party is fielding 150 new faces, raising the number of women contestants from 34 to 46 and dropping nine sitting ministers.

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In the month leading up to the Shangri-La Dialogue, General Liang had visited Washington, DC (the first Chinese defence minister to do so in nine years) and attended a meeting of South-East Asian defence ministers in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.

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