Shangri-la Dialogue: Strategic trust is key

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At the recent annual global gathering of high-level defense and security officials, Rappler editor-at-large Marites Vitug who attended the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore said “strategic trust” was the key theme of the weekend meeting. Speakers highlighted that hotlines between armed forces are a vital tool, but these can only be effective if officials know each other and have had experience dealing with one another. Hotlines don’t work when persons call each other out of the cold. “The ringing call for trust is timely and important as this year’s Dialogue takes place at a period of heightened tension in Asian hot spots, including maritime disputes in the South China Sea (West Philippines Sea to us). It is precisely because of this lack of trust, which contributes to conflict, that the Dialogue tried to make up for it through words,” Vitug wrote.


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