Press Coverage 2006

Antony likely to visit Singapore in May "New areas of defence cooperation, including joint training facilities are emerging and supplementing existing cooperation between India and Singapore in the naval, maritime and counter-terrorism spheres," Pranab Mukherjee, the then Indian defence minister, had said while addressing the annual security conference of Singapore's International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) last year.
Closing Remarks at Asian Security Conference Besides terrorism, other low-intensity threats like sea-piracy pose a direct challenge to the security of sea-lines of communication (SLOCs). The most critical global sea-routes for maritime trade pass through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. However, this vital waterway has become highly insecure due to piracy. Though piracy has reduced considerably since 2003, the changing contours of the crime and the coordination among pirates needs to be countered strongly.There is also widespread...
Challenges for US Alliance Management By Dr Patrick Cronin, Director of Studies
The First Five Years Over the last year, the Iranian issue has raised concerns about the SCO in Western capitals. “It strikes me as strange that one would want to bring into an organization that says it’s against terrorism... one of the leading terrorist nations in the world,” said U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Singapore on the eve of the summit.
China Says ‘Shut Up' Defense Secretary Rumsfeld can now stop pretending he didn't know the answer to the questions he himself asked in June 2005. "Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment? Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?" Mr. Rumsfeld asked at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual Asian-Pacific military conference that took place in Singapore and was organized by the London-based International Institute for...
Army, Air Force, Navy on the way Rumsfeld, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference in Singapore in June, talked about China, North Korea and terrorism concerns that make the Pacific a greater focus for U.S. military readiness. At that conference, Rumsfeld said the rest of the world will be interested in seeing a more transparent China as far as its military "investments" are concerned. "You can't be successful economically and engage the rest of the world and have people...

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