Instead, China will send a lower-level People’s Liberation Army (PLA) delegation to Asia’s premier defence forum which will open on Friday (May 29) and continue until Sunday, the sources said. CNA
China's Defence Minister Dong Jun is not at this dialogue. It is likely that China will no longer lend its credibility to an event that is Anglocentric and in a way designed to glorify the Americans and the West and to take potshots at China going forward. China must have known by now that the Dialogue is of little value to China, in effect, of negative value to China when even the language of delivery for the majority of the participants is English, that put China in a big disadvantage. More pertinent is the agenda and intent of the Dialogue, with the Americans and the West setting the tone and direction that are anything but unfriendly of hostile to China. China is the dart board for participants to throw darts at.
The Shangri La Dialogue is like a piece of the American system that controls the world, set the agenda and narrative for the world, a small part of the global financial and banking system, western gangster rules based order to reinforce western dominance and hegemony. Why should China be bothered with such a set up?
China now has its equivalent of the Shangri La Dialogue, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum. 'Initiated in 2006 by the China Association for Military Science, the Xiangshan Forum is a major international security and defense platform designed to rival the Western-dominated dialogue in Singapore.' Google News.
The mission of the Xiangshan Forum is quite similar to the Shangri La Dialogue, but with themes, terminologies, nuances and focus more from the China and Global South perspective, and interests in the Asia and Pacific Region. The narratives will be towards a future of multipolar world and NOT about American hegemony and western dominance. There will be no glorification for the American terrorists and western gangsterism but for a more balance, equal and just world for all nations based on international laws and international institutions, not American gangster rules based order.
The two events will be a part of the international features and will flourish with the rise of China and the fall of the American Empire. One is the baby of a rising superpower that shares and represents the Global South countries, and another supposedly the baby of Singapore, peddling to the interests of the evil American Empire.
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“For China, it must decide for itself whether the Shangri-La Dialogue adds value. There is no coercion for you to attend.
“Is it better? To come to an open platform, to subject yourself sometimes to a tyranny of questions and to what might seem a common view from others to explain yourself? Or to retreat from that engagement? That is something that China must decide for itself.”
- Ng Eng Hen, Jun 12, 2022
There are wide-spread views that the Shangri-la Dialogue, as a forum, is dominated by the United States and its allies, serving the interest of the United States and its allies.
This so call dialogue aka talk cock session are just a waste of sillyporean tax payer money. How does it benefit sillyporean? the million that was spend on such event can be better used to fund the medical cost of old people. It is the same with the annual 80million spend on F1, only business people benefit at the expand of taxpayer. Ohh forgot it-what-lan & ah beng also benefited.
Ask the pigs, where is the best place to be in. The pigs will say, the pigsty. The pigs are very use to the smell and environment in the pigsty and think it is the best place to be in after years inside a pigsty.
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