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The faltering state of Asian security as captured in 3 key speeches at the Shangri-La Dialogue
From Asian community to guard rails – how keynote speeches by Australian PMs Rudd, Turnbull and Albanese track the geopolitical changes in Asia over the decades.
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(From left) Former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull, and current PM Anthony Albanese.
PHOTOS: FACEBOOK/KEVIN RUDD, MALCOLM TURNBULL, REUTERS
Putting away my notes from this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue
When Mr Rudd, recently appointed his nation’s ambassador to the United States, addressed the Asian Security Summit as it is actually called, the now-ubiquitous iPhone – which would grow to be emblematic of the enmeshing of the American and Chinese economies – was just two years old. Facebook had just about started to gain ground, and WhatsApp was yet to be unleashed upon the world.
