Tag Archive for: "Shangri-La Dialogue"
Not much dialogue at Shangri-La

The 18th iteration of the Shangri-La Dialogue, the region’s premier defence and security conference, was much anticipated. The Sino-American trade dispute had stepped up with Washington imposing tariffs on a further US$200 billion worth of …

ASPI suggests

The world ‘Asia’s premier defence summit’, the Shangri-La Dialogue, was held last weekend and was attended by defence ministers, government officials and think-tank representatives from across the region. Sam Sachdeva’s Newsroom report captured the highlights …

ASEAN frets about rules and order

Yes to a rules-based system in the Indo-Pacific. But who rules, who writes the rules, and how fares the system? And yes to the reality of a rapidly evolving security order in the Asia–Pacific. But …

South Pacific security at Shangri-La

The South Pacific calls global warming its top security threat. And China’s arrival is warming discussion of island security. Both trends explain why, for the first time in its 18-year history, Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue had …

The Shangri-La defence dance

The Shangri-La Dialogue is speed dating for defence ministers. Singapore has just hosted the 18th annual version of this defence dance done with summit trappings. The 22 ministers were a sizeable grouping of stars. Then …