“Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently told an international security gathering in Singapore, a catchphrase that speaks to the harsh lessons learnt over the past few months. Better deterrence and response capabilities, he told a room packed with defense officials and diplomats, will be “absolutely essential if Japan
The future rules of the international order are playing out in Ukraine’s war zones, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore as he rallied support for his country Saturday in its fight against Russia’s invading forces. The Ukrainian leader appeared on a giant screen as he addressed delegates from 40 countries,
Amid a growing number of security challenges, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida outlined his vision for a more secure Indo-Pacific region in a keynote speech Friday night to kick off this year’s IISS Shangri-la Dialogue — a major international security summit — in Singapore. Speaking before defense ministers and senior officials from 42 countries, Kishida divided
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought to the fore U.S.-China frictions with no end in sight, analysts warned, while a former Asian leader cautioned about the risk of a new world war. “I am afraid that wars have a habit of beginning small and then grow into world wars,” former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
The English Football League says that it will be making enquiries with Birmingham City Football Club following the revelation by RFA earlier this week that Cambodian diplomat Wang Yaohui secretly controls an eighth of the club’s shares. Under English Football League regulations, Birmingham City is obliged to disclose both to the league and publicly the
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will attend this year’s IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore — a major international security forum — as the keynote speaker, The Japan Times has learned. The event’s organizer, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), told The Japan Times Thursday that Kishida has confirmed his participation in the 19th iteration of
Indonesia, Singapore. Source link. KEYWORDS. PHOTO GALLERY (CLICK TO ENLARGE). Jakarta– Indonesia and Singapore signed on Tuesday a bilateral extradition arrangement, a move that Jakarta anticipates to help authorities in their effort to bring to trial people implicated of stashing offshore billions of dollars in state money.Senior cabinet ministers from both countries also signed bilateral
