Mattis Lays Out U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy at Shangri-La
By Euan Graham
June 04, 2018
The theme of geopolitical competition which ran through the 2018 Shangri-La Dialogue was appropriately expansive for the debut of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy as outlined by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Given that Singapore will host the Trump–Kim meeting in just over a week, that on-again, off-again melodrama could easily have sucked the strategic oxygen out of the annual Asian security dialogue. The U.S.–North Korea summit was the object of much speculation and rumour in the corridors, but owing to Mattis’s steering it wasn’t the all-consuming distraction it might have been.
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