Shangri-La reveals a region short on peace and harmony
The rhetoric at the annual Singapore security conference says that even stabilised relations with China will remain testing for Australian governments.
Even in these grim times, last weekend’s Indo-Pacific security summit in Singapore presented a jarring juxtaposition.
At the incongruously named Shangri-La Dialogue, China’s latest defence minister, Admiral Dong Jun, threatened aggression against Taiwan and the Philippines in the most pointed language of intimidation yet heard at these annual gatherings.
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Professor Rory Medcalf is head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.
