BLUF
At the recent Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore, French President Emmanuel Macron used his keynote address to call for closer ties between European and Asian countries, to ally against what he called ‘spheres of coercion’.Learning Outcomes
- Understand the importance of developing new strategic partnerships as a result of both changing US global priorities, and on-going security threats from China and Russia.
- Strategic awareness of current threats to the rules-based international order and freedom of navigation in the Asia-Pacific region, and how law-abiding nations are responding to this.
