Shangri-La Dialogue 2008

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Press Coverage 2008

06 Jun 2008 - - Straits Times - A second fiddle with a few strings missing AT THE Shangri-La Dialogue last weekend, French Defence Minister Herve Morin made a startling remark. Acknowledging that 'during the 25 years to come, the centre of gravity of the world will move to Asia', he went on to say that while Europe will become 'full players' in the region, Asia itself should stop 'considering Europe as a second-ranking power'. Most leaders pay compliments to their hosts while undertaking foreign trips. But very few indeed openly complain about not being taken...
06 Jun 2008 - - Economist - Asia's Navies: Into the wide blue yonder Is this an arms race? As Asia's defence ministers and military chiefs gathered in Singapore last weekend for their main annual summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue (organised by the IISS), the conclusion of most analysts seemed to be: not yet. A classic arms race, says Mr Huxley, consists of two main countries that have one dominating dispute. Asia is different. Instead, it has the makings of a pair of opposing alliances. A “quad” group (India, America, Australia and Japan) plus Singapore now...
06 Jun 2008 - - Asia Times - China takes on the US - in space Similarly, Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of staff of the PLA, speaking at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore at the weekend, was less than subtle. He did not mention the US at all (other than including Hurricane Katrina in the list of recent natural disasters), but did identify "expansion of military alliance" and "development and expansion of missile defense system" among the major security challenges the region faces ...
06 Jun 2008 - - Economist - Myanmar: a month of misery America said on June 4th that its warships, laden with relief supplies, which have been waiting off Myanmar's coasts, would soon leave, because at least 15 attempts to persuade the regime to let them deliver the aid had been rebuffed. At a summit in Singapore, America's defence secretary, Robert Gates, accused the regime of “criminal neglect” but rejected the idea, floated by France, of using force to send in aid without the junta's agreement.
05 Jun 2008 - - Washington Times - Inside the Ring: Asia Pacific Mr. Gates told the annual International Institute of Strategic Studies meeting, which included numerous defense and military leaders from the region, that by using the term resident power, "I mean there is sovereign American territory in the western Pacific, from the Aleutian Islands all the way down to Guam." It was the first time a defense chief emphasized U.S. territory in the Pacific as a basis for U.S. security strategy.
05 Jun 2008 - - Defense News - Gates Reaffirms U.S. Presence in Asia at Summit The U.S. will continue to honor its commitments and responsibilities in the Asia-Pacific region "no matter which political party occupies the White House next year," U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told delegation members at the 7th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Summit: The Shangri-La Dialogue, held here from May 30 to June 1. For those who worry that Iraq and Afghanistan have distracted the United States from Asia and developments here, I would...

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Agenda

2008 Agenda

Plenary Sessions and Speeches

2008 Speeches

Dialogue Report 2008

The IISS has a compiled a report on the summit held in 2008 containing details of the plenary sessions and a flavour of the discussions in the breakout groups.

The Shangri-La Dialogue Report 2008 is available online.