12 June 2019

Not much dialogue at Shangri-La

Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre

The 18th iteration of the Shangri-La Dialogue, the region’s premier defence and security conference, was much anticipated. Nick Bisley refers to USSC's Foreign Policy and Defence Director Ashley Townshend's comments on General Wei Fenghe's bold statement.

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Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre
Ashley Townshend is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre and Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the founding co-chair of the annual US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue and was the Director of Foreign Policy and Defence at the United States Studies Centre from June 2017 to June 2022.

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