The IISS Shangri-La Dialogue is Asia's premier defense summit. It’s a unique meeting where ministers debate the region’s most pressing security challenges, engage in important bilateral talks and come up with fresh approaches together.
The 2023 event is taking place in Singapore on 2–4 June.
All events will take place at the Shangri-La Hotel, 22 Orange Grove Road, Singapore 258350, except for dinner on Saturday night, which will be held at the Istana.
All sessions will be on the record.
All sessions will be on the record.
U.S.-China divide looms as Asia security summit begins in Singapore
NPR | By Emily Feng
SINGAPORE – Tense U.S.-relations and an arms build-up in the Pacific region will be on show this weekend as defense chiefs, including from the U.S. and China, gather at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an international defense summit, in Singapore.
- The Dialogue, which started Friday, has been overshadowed by China's refusal to let its defense minister meet formally with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the forum.
- Meanwhile, representatives from the U.S. and Taiwan signed a trade agreement on the eve of the security summit and over protests from China, which claims the island as part of Chinese territory. The pact was signed by workers of unofficial entities that maintain relations between the U.S. and the island democracy.
- The deepening U.S.-China military competition has drawn in surrounding countries, whose concerns will be front and center at the Shangri-La Dialogue. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers a keynote address at the opening dinner on Friday. Japan, a key U.S. ally which has been deeply concerned over China's increasing hostility toward the nearby island of Taiwan, has sent a large delegation.
- Southeast Asia is also maneuvering around how to position themselves around the great power rivalry between the U.S. and China. The South China Sea, where China has staked out contested territorial claims at odds with overlapping claims from Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia, to name just a few, remains a hot button issue.
- Taiwan and its dominance in semiconductor manufacturing – a critical tech sector at the heart of the U.S.-China rivalry – is also an issue of concern for Southeast Asia. Some U.S. firms and Taiwanese chip juggernaut TSMC have been looking to shift operations to the region, out of China.
The war in Ukraine, despite being a hemisphere away, will also be on the agenda.
- Most Southeast Asian countries have chosen to remain silent on Russia's invasion.
- Ukraine has sent its deputy defense chief, Volodymyr Havrylov, to Singapore to attend the summit, where he will speak on a panel with Andi Widjajanto, a politician from Indonesia, which has kept up friendly ties with Moscow.
The U.S. and China are headlining the event
Although Chinese defense minister Li Shangfu and Austin weren't expected to speak to each other, the two defense chiefs did briefly exchange words and shook hands before being seated at Friday's opening dinner — "but did not have a substantive exchange," Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said in statement.
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Asia security summit kicks off amid US-China tensions
SINGAPORE, June 2 (Reuters) - Asia's top security meeting opened on Friday, with intensifying competition between the United States and China expected to dominate a weekend of high-level speeches, backroom military dealings and delicate diplomacy. . .
- The relationship between the U.S. and China is at its lowest point in decades, as the two superpowers remain deeply divided over everything from the sovereignty of Taiwan to cyber espionage and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
- Hopes that the summit in Singapore could be a chance to mend ties between Washington and Beijing were dealt a blow last week when Li declined an offer to meet with Austin.
Li, who was named China's new defence minister in March, was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018 over weapons purchases from Russia. . ."
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IISS Shangri-La Dialogue – Speaker Agenda
Explore the agenda for Asia’s premier defence summit, the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2023, which is taking place in Singapore on 2–4 June.
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FRIDAY 2 JUNE 2023
| All day | BILATERAL MEETINGS |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | SIMULTANEOUS SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| Session 1: SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF CYBER AND TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITION Dr Bastian Giegerich, Director of Defence and Military Analysis, IISS Avril Haines, Director, National Intelligence, US Okano Masataka, Deputy National Security Advisor, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan Brigadier General Edward Chen, Defence Cyber Chief, Singapore Armed Forces Žilvinas Tomkus, Vice Minister of National Defence, Lithuania | |
| Session 2: CHALLENGES OF ASIA-PACIFIC MILITARY CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT Dr Euan Graham, Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy, IISS-Asia General Andres Centino, Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines General Angus Campbell, Chief of the Defence Force, Australia General Yoshida Yoshihide, Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, Japan Self-Defense Forces Admiral Linda Fagan, Commandant, US Coast Guard | |
| Session 3: NUCLEAR DIMENSIONS OF REGIONAL SECURITY William Alberque, Director of Strategy, Technology, and Arms Control, IISS-Europe General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Pakistan Armed Forces Andrew Little, Minister of Defence, New Zealand Kim Gunn, Special Representative, Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea Angus Lapsley, Assistant Secretary General, Defence Policy and Planning, NATO | |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | OPENING RECEPTION |
| MINISTERIAL RECEPTION (BY INVITATION ONLY) | |
| 20:00 – 22:15 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND OPENING DINNER |
SATURDAY 3 JUNE 2023
| 08:30 – 08:35 | OPENING OF THE SUMMIT |
| 08:35 – 09:30 | FIRST PLENARY SESSION |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | SECOND PLENARY SESSION |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | THIRD PLENARY SESSION RESOLVING REGIONAL TENSIONS General (Retd) Prabowo Subianto, Minister of Defense, Indonesia Lee Jong-Sup, Minister of National Defense, Republic of Korea Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative; Vice President, European Commission, EU |
| 13:00 – 14:45 | MINISTERIAL ROUNDTABLE (BY INVITATION ONLY) Hosted by Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Defence, Singapore LUNCH FOR ALL OTHER DELEGATES LUNCH FOR SPONSORS AND CORPORATE SUPPORTERS OF THE IISS (BY INVITATION ONLY) |
| 14:45 – 16:00 | FOURTH PLENARY SESSION ASIA’S EVOLVING MARITIME SECURITY ORDER Hamada Yasukazu, Minister of Defense, Japan Dr Pål Jonson, Minister for Defence, Sweden Pio Tikoduadua, Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration, Fiji |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | SIMULTANEOUS SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| Session 4: BALANCING ASIA-PACIFIC MINILATERALISM AND ASEAN CENTRALITY Aaron Connelly, Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Politics and Foreign Policy, IISS-Asia Dr Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of ASEAN Jan Adams, Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia Loren Legarda, Senate President Pro Tempore, Senate of the Philippines Pornpimol Kanchanalak, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thailand Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Minister of State, Indo-Pacific, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sidharto R Suryodipuro, Chair, ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting; Director General, ASEAN Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia | |
| Session 5: MANAGING EURO-ATLANTIC AND ASIA-PACIFIC SECURITY Dr Lynn Kuok, Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow, IISS-Asia; Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defence, Ukraine Cui Tiankai, Former Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China Andi Widjajanto, Governor, National Resilience Institute, Indonesia Kajsa Ollongren, Minister of Defence, The Netherlands | |
| Session 6: DEFENCE COOPERATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, Senior Fellow for South and Central Asian Defence, Strategy and Diplomacy, IISS Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, Foreign Minister, Oman Vikram Misri, Deputy National Security Advisor, India Admiral John Aquilino, Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command Sagala Ratnayaka, Chief of Staff to the President and National Security Advisor, President’s Office, Sri Lanka Admiral Pierre Vandier, Chief of Staff, French Navy | |
| 19:30 – 22:00 | THE ISTANA DINNER (BY INVITATION ONLY) Hosted by Mdm Halimah Yacob, President, Singapore |
SUNDAY 4 JUNE 2023
| 08:30 – 08:35 | OPENING OF DAY 2 Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS |
| 08:35 – 09:30 | FIFTH PLENARY SESSION |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | SIXTH PLENARY SESSION |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | SEVENTH PLENARY SESSION DEVELOPING MODELS FOR COOPERATIVE SECURITY General Tea Banh, Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of National Defense, Cambodia Richard Marles, Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Defence, Australia Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Defence, Singapore |
| ENVOI Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | MINISTERIAL ROUNDTABLE (BY INVITATION ONLY) Hosted by Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Defence, Singapore CLOSING LUNCH FOR ALL OTHER DELEGATES |
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers the Keynote Address at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2023
FIRST PLENARY SESSION: UNITED STATES’ LEADERSHIP IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
Welcome to the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue
2023 SPEAKERS
Anthony Albanese
Lloyd J. Austin III
Carlito Galvez Jr
Ben Wallace
Anita Anand
General (Retd) Prabowo Subianto
Lee Jong-Sup
Josep Borrell Fontelles
Hamada Yasukazu
Pål Jonson
Pio Tikoduadua
General Li Shangfu
José Ramos-Horta,
Kaja Kallas
Boris Pistorius
Tea Banh
Richard Marles
Dr Ng Eng Hen
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