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Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini offered perspectives from Europe on the final day of the 14th IISS Shangri-la Dialogue.
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Admiral Sun Jianguo, Deputy Chief of Staff of the People’s Liberation Army, opens the final day of the 2015 Shangri-La Dialogue by offering China's perspective on regional order in the Asia Pacific.
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During the third plenary session of the Shangri-La Dialogue, Defence Ministers from Malaysia, Cambodia and the UK all highlighted the global consequences of tensions in the Asia-Pacific.
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US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called for 'a regional security architecture where everyone rises' in his address to the 2015 IISS Shangri-La Dialogue. He also said China was out of step with international norms in its activity in the South China Sea.
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All Asia wants a positive US-China relationship, no country wants to choose sides, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his Keynote Address at the 2015 IISS Shangri-La Dialogue.
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Since 2008 the number of active conflicts worldwide has fallen from 63 to 42, but annual fatalities have more than trebled from 56,000 to 180,000.
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ISIS’s four principal manifestations – as a guerrilla army, Sunni political movement, millenarian cult and administrator of territory – suggest a strategy against it: aggressive containment.
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China has long adhered to a principle of ‘non-interference’ in other states’ affairs. However, as more of its companies invest in projects overseas, Beijing is finding itself involved in other countries.
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This map of global hot spots focuses on conflict-related displacement worldwide with a timeline, graphs and tables.
The Military Balance is the IISS flagship annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries worldwide. New features include technical equipment-focused graphics, a chart of Russia’s armed forces and analytical essays on hybrid warfare, directed energy weapons and US space systems.
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