As Asia’s premier defense forum opens in Singapore on May 29, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue is morphing from a venue of superpower posturing into a high-stakes market for strategic hedging. Driven by cascading conflicts in the Middle East, intensifying great-power friction and a corrosive skepticism over the longevity of the US-led security umbrella, Indo-Pacific nations […]
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