U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gestures during a question and answer session in a plenary session of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue Defense Summit in Singapore, Saturday. Defense ministers and officials from 44 countries are gathered in the city state for the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual high-level defense summit in the Asia Pacific region. EPA-Yonhap

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday morning, just two weeks after a summit between the presidents of China and the United States.

The speech was expected to be a barometer of the summit's outcomes between President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.

Here are some of the main points from Hegseth's address.

Tough on China, but less confrontational