IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2024 | Plenary Session 3: Building Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific

From AUKUS to new trilaterals, the Asia-Pacific’s connective security architecture is diversifying as countries seek to find new partners that are ready, willing, and able to collaborate. These new arrangements sit alongside broader and more established cooperative security mechanisms built around ASEAN. This session explored how these arrangements should be further developed in the Asia-Pacific, despite multiple sources of tension and divergent perspectives on how best to manage the current security environment.

Chair: Dr Bastian Giegerich, Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
General Tea Seiha, Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of National Defense, Cambodia
Richard Marles, Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Defence, Australia
Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Vice-President of the European Commission, European Union