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Rory Medcalf

Australia weaves a diplomatic web in Asia

The weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore showed a widening ‘minilateral’ security web designed to enmesh the US in partnership, not primacy.

Rory MedcalfGeopolitical analyst
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If the art of war is to win without fighting, then on the first weekend each June a grand hotel in Singapore becomes the theatre of ritualised contest.

So it was in recent days with the international security summit known as the Shangri-La Dialogue.

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Professor Rory Medcalf is head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.
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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/australia-weaves-a-diplomatic-web-in-asia-20230604-p5ddq3