(31 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Singapore – 31 May 2025
1. Wide of plenary session
2. Mid of Vietnamese Minister of National Defense General Phan Van Giang and Executive Chairman of International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Sir John Chipman
3. Mid of EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani
4. Kallas walking to podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaja Kallas, EU foreign policy chief:
“North Korea directly contributes to the illegal aggression with soldiers, arms and ammunition. And China says it’s neutral, but its dual use experts are fuelling Russia’s war. When China and Russia speak of leading together, the change is not seen in 100 years and of revisions of the global security order. We should all be extremely worried.”
6. Various of audience
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Gen Nakatani, Japanese Defense Minister:
“The rules-based international order is rapidly becoming hollowed out. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a violation of Article 2, paragraph 4 of the UN Charter, and the final decision of the International Tribunal of Arbitration in the South China Sea is being openly ignored. This situation threatens to undermine the effectiveness of international law, which is the prerequisite for a peaceful and stable international community.”
8. Mid of plenary session title reading (English): "Second plenary session, ensuring stability in a competitive world"
9. Wide of speakers
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaja Kallas, EU foreign policy chief:
“Our security is very much interlinked and what we have to do for not the worst case scenario happening, is that we really need to defend the international law because that says it all. That is the umbrella that actually protects, especially, the smaller states.”
11. Various of panel
STORYLINE:
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday that the world should be "extremely worried" about Russia and China’s relationship amid North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine.
"When China and Russia speak of leading together, the change is not seen in 100 years and of revisions of the global security order. We should all be extremely worried," Kallas said during a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a global security conference hosted by the International Institute for Security Studies, in Singapore.
Kallas added that European and Asian security were “very much interlinked" while speaking on a panel about ensuring global stability.
"Our security is very much interlinked and what we have to do for not the worst case scenario happening, is that we really need to defend the international law because that says it all," she said.
During the panel, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani also said that "the rules-based international order is rapidly becoming hollowed out" while referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as the increasing military and economic pressure from China seen within the region.
China has a stated goal of having its military have the capability to take Taiwan by force if necessary by 2027, a deadline that is seen by experts as more of an aspirational goal than a hard war deadline.
But China also has built sophisticated man-made islands in the South China Sea to support new military outposts and developed highly advanced hypersonic and space capabilities, which are driving the U.S. to create its own space-based “Golden Dome” missile defenses.
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