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Shadow of Ukraine war over Shangri-La Dialogue
Increasingly, the conflict in Europe is enmeshed with issues in the Asian security domain
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Cars that were damaged during a massive Russian drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30, 2023.
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Tan See Seng
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“Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow,” Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned at the 2022 Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD).
Mr Zelensky’s call for pre-emptive actions to forestall violence by bigger powers such as Russia echoed the anxiety underlying Mr Kishida’s remarks – the fear that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would spark a wider conflagration in Asia.
