Shangri-La Dialogue 2009

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05 Dec 2009 - - The Australian - Prime Minister glides with the fo-po set We have come a fair way in that conversation,'' Mr Rudd told delegates, having personally pumped air into the idea this year at the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore, at the East Asia Summit in Thailand and with APEC leaders in Singapore last month.
09 Aug 2009 - - El Mercurio de Valparaíso - Chile debe tener más liderazgo en la seguridad regional Interview with Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
05 Jul 2009 - - Honolulu Advertiser - China can become part of solution The PLA has been even less forthcoming. At this year's Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Defense Secretary Robert Gates (unlike his predecessor) took an exclusively positive approach in discussing Sino-U.S. relations, noting that it was "essential" that the two sides find "opportunities to cooperate wherever possible." By contrast, the senior Chinese official at the meeting, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Ma Xiaotian, complained about the threat posed by U.S. alliances and Washington's "cold war
04 Jul 2009 - - Frontline - Torture by law The junta did not, of course, seek to put any kind of political gloss over the strange charge against her. Not only that. A Myanmarese Minister, while speaking at the Asian Security Summit in Singapore on May 31, digressed to portray the bizarre charge as a serious case of crime against the state. The summit was organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. Surprisingly, the Ministers tirade against Suu Kyi went unchallenged by the summit participants. Asked about this, the i
15 June 2009 - - Korea Herald - Solidifying a joint approach to Pyongyang Presidents Lee and Obama should express their willingness to resume nuclear negotiations within the con-text of the six-party talks. But they should make it clear, as U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently exclaimed at the Shangri-La Dialogue in late May, that they are "tired of buying the same horse twice." By my count, we have already bought the North's nuclear facilities at Yongbyon three times; the fourth payment must be a final one, after true (already paid for) disablement and in return for comp
13 June 2009 - - Korea Herald - The six-party talks are dead in the water As Defense Secretary Robert Gates articulated at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May 30, Washington will not stand idly by as Pyongyang builds the capacity to wreak destruction on the United States or its allies. Economic sanctions such as import-export denial to and from North Korea and restraint of investment into the North should be firmly imposed. Sanctions to terminate financial flows for WMD development have to be enforced as well. Physical interdiction efforts to block North Korean proliferat

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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.