Shangri-La Dialogue 2008

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Press Coverage 2008

05 Jun 2008 - - PacNet Newsletter - Gates “Reassures” Asia The United States is a “resident” power in Asia that has been and will remain fully engaged in the region and both supportive of and involved in the development of any regional security architecture. This was the central message delivered by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore this past weekend. Press coverage has focused on his “subtle warnings” to China and blunt comments about Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar) but the real message was one of reassurance...
05 Jun 2008 - - Associated Press - Australian defense chief wants Afghanistan surge Fitzgibbon said he expected Washington would send more troops to Afghanistan as it withdrew others from Iraq. He said Defense Secretary Robert Gates, whom he met at an international security conference in Singapore last weekend, agreed on the need to substantially increase troop numbers in Afghanistan.
05 Jun 2008 - - Weekly Standard - Burma and the Bush Administration: it's time to intervene The Burmese regime is guilty of atrocities far worse than the "criminal neglect" Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ascribes to them. It is guilty of crimes against humanity. Prior to the cyclone, the regime received dozens of warnings from India that the storm was on its way--yet did nothing to prepare its citizens. When the cyclone struck, the government sat on its hands and refused international help. Neither material aid nor aid workers were allowed to reach the victims, causing...
04 Jun 2008 - - Economist - Asia View: Soothe, seethe The earthquake in Sichuan last month, and the West's sympathetic response to it, has helped to defuse the tension, but anxieties remain. At a recent conference in Singapore on regional security, organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, said that how China and the West handled problems caused by “narrow interest groups” (apparently referring to the pro-Tibet lobby and its ilk), would “strongly influence whether...
04 Jun 2008 - - Straits Times - Let's get past the talking The annual Shangri-La Dialogue partnership is not a supranational entity, however. It has no enforcement mechanism or binding authority. But its impressive line-up of participants including ranking officials from the United States, China, Japan and Europe, aside from Asean, gives it weight. Its three principles governing relief are intended for general guidance. While it is necessary to get the philosophy of aid widely accepted among nations, the brutal truth is that Myanmar's storm victims are...
04 Jun 2008 - - New Straits Times - Uncle Sam's security role in Asia Last weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to the 7th IISS Asia Security Summit in Singapore. I say pleasure, because as a one-time conference whore turned political commentator, the Shangri-La Dialogue is, in many ways, my Sundance Film Festival (in which case Davos would undeniably be Cannes). I am not easily star-struck, but when face to face with the likes of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, when you're in the...

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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.