Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be here in Singapore on Friday night to deliver his most significant foreign policy speech yet.
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The Australian leader is the keynote speaker at Friday’s opening-night dinner, following in the footsteps of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who delivered last year’s main address, and Malcolm Turnbull, who was the headline act in 2017 when he was the Australian PM. From left to right, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, Singaporean Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, and his counterparts, Australia’s Richard Marles and China’s Wei Fenghe at last year’s Shangri-La Dialogue.It was in a corner of the Shangri-La last year that Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles met Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe in the first such in-person discussion between ministers from the two nations in almost three years.
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