Episode 14 - Reflections on SLD24 with William Choong
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The Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) is a track 1 intergovernmental security conference held in Singapore that gathers participants from across the region to discuss issues such as U.S. leadership in the Indo-Pacific. This year’s iteration of the summit saw competing visions for regional cooperation offered by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun, the former outlining a vision for network of partners and the latter speaking of China’s “five principles of peaceful coexistence.” The summit also saw a surprise in-person appearance by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who sought to raise awareness of a mid-June peace summit on Ukraine, while hot topics for discussion included the South China Sea, the Israel-Hamas War and Taiwan. Join us as we sit down with William Choong, Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and former Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security at IISS, to reflect on whathappened at this year’s SLD.
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