Singapore, May 31 (ANI): United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin met with China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Friday, in their first in-person dialogue in nearly 18 months and follows a video call between the two last month. Nikkei Asia citing an US official confirmed that the meeting began today between Austin and his Chinese counterpart. The meeting comes amidst a fraught regional backdrop as China only days ago had conducted a large-scale, two-day military drill encircling Taiwan and Beijing’s efforts to aggressively assert disp…