Abstract
Amid the escalating US–China trade war, all eyes were on US Acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue. Those hoping for fireworks would have been disappointed. Shanahan offered a mild restatement of the Trump administration’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy, while Wei gave a robust but unsurprising rehearsal of China’s long-held core interests — particularly on the question of Taiwan.
| Original language | English |
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| No. | 12 June 2019 |
| Specialist publication | Australian Financial Review |
| Publisher | Fairfax Media |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Jun 2019 |