Category: IISS Shangri-La Dialogue

Harmful to Assume War Is Inevitable: Aussie PM

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned that assuming that “war is inevitable” is just as harmful as the idea that “conflict is impossible” amid tensions in the Indo-Pacific. “We sometimes hear our region described as a potential ‘theatre’ for conflict,” Albanese said during a major foreign policy speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore…


US Defence Chief Calls on Beijing to Engage in Dialogue to Avoid Conflict

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the ruling party of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), has demonstrated little interest in engaging in serious talks with the United States about the fraying relationship between the global superpowers and its potentially catastrophic consequences.  U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, however, in his address on June 2 at…


US Defense Chief Calls on Beijing to Engage in Dialogue to Avoid Conflict

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the ruling party of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), has demonstrated little interest in engaging in serious talks with the United States about the fraying relationship between the global superpowers and its potentially catastrophic consequences.  U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, however, in his address on June 3 at…