Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned that assuming that “war is inevitable” is just as harmful as the idea that “conflict is impossible” amid tensions in the Indo-Pacific.
“We sometimes hear our region described as a potential ‘theatre’ for conflict,” Albanese said during a major foreign policy speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 2.
“As if this is merely a backdrop, a location, an arena for the ambitions of others. Such a view is entirely—and dangerously—wrong.”
Albanese visited Singapore on June 2 for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit, Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD)—an inter-government security conference held annually in Singapore where ministers for defence debate security challenges within the region….