Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
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The US-China Bilateral Relationship and the Shangri-La Dialogue
The US Defense Secretary will come with between 150 and 200 people on the plane, including a whole bunch of journalists. The value of coming to an event like this is that you get to have in one weekend as many meetings as it would take you six months to do under other circumstances because everybody's in one place. So yes, you have these 600 or so VIP guests who are delegates who go and sit in the ballroom, but they all come with these big entourage. And when I remember, I first came to the Shangri-La dialogue in 2016, the year that I moved to Singapore. There will be a kind of crocodile train of sort of 25 officials in identical uniforms
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