SINGAPORE – The foremost priority for countries in the coming decade is to prevent physical conflict from breaking out in Asia, Singapore’s Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Sunday (June 4). Yet, while few would disagree that simultaneous conflicts in Europe and Asia would be catastrophic for an entire generation, “unfortunately the reality and trajectory of geopolitics diverges”, he...
SINGAPORE – The foremost priority for countries in the coming decade is to prevent physical conflict from breaking out in Asia, Singapore’s Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Sunday .
Calling the US-China relationship central to the stability of Asia and the wider Indo-Pacific region, Dr Ng said communication channels, both formal and informal, are necessary to de-escalate and avoid conflict. Dr Ng cited how ministers from both sides used to meet yearly at the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue to discuss economic and security issues, while the two militaries would host each other’s leaders and also participate in joint war games.
Addressing a question from a member of the audience about Japan’s rising military spending, Dr Ng said Tokyo should continue to reassure its neighbours, including China, about its defence policy. Japan may have been a very peaceful country since World War II, and given out a lot of aid, but it still has “unresolved animosities are not far from the surface” with its neighbours, said Dr Ng.
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