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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 analystIf 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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