(31 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singapore – 31 May 2024
1. Various of security outside Shangri-la Hotel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singapore – 30 May 2024
++INTERVIEW VIA VIDEOLINK++
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eugene Tan, political analyst:
“I don’t think these countries are really looking to go to war with each other, but the concern with these skirmishes is that sometimes when you have a miscalculation, then things could rapidly deteriorate into the use of force. And I think the last thing that countries in the region would want, particularly as they focus on the post-pandemic recovery, would be to have a regional conflict at their doorstep.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singapore – 31 May 2024
3. Various exteriors of Shangri-la hotel
4. Police vehicle outside hotel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SIngapore – 30 May 2024
++INTERVIEW VIA VIDEOLINK++
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eugene Tan, political analyst:
“We would probably be expecting too much of the Shangri-La dialogue to expect any sort of concrete moves forward, I see the Shangri-La dialogue as really providing the opportunity for very incremental steps in trust and confidence building.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shangri-la Hotel, SIngapore – 31 May 2024
6. Various of hotel lobby with forum signage, security
STORYLINE:
Top defense officials, government leaders and diplomats from around the world are gathering in Singapore for Asia’s premiere security forum this weekend.
It comes at a time of increasing tension between the United States and China, as both look to win new influence and allies as they press competing agendas in the Indo-Pacific region.
Beijing in recent years has been rapidly expanding its navy and is becoming growingly assertive in pressing its claim to virtually the entire South China Sea.
The U.S., meanwhile, has been ramping up military exercises in the region with its allies to underscore its “free and open Indo-Pacific” concept.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart Admiral Dong Jun.
It will be the first meeting between the two defense leaders following a phone call in April.
The U.S. and China have gradually worked to warm relations, which had been largely frozen since a controversial visit to Taiwan by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2022 resulted in China temporarily stopping most military-to-military communications.
But Eugene Tan, a political analyst, said it was expecting too much to have any "concrete moves forward."
"I see the Shangri-La dialogue as really providing the opportunity for very incremental steps in trust and confidence building," he said.
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