The Asian way for Asian security – Prabowo Subianto’s proposition should be heard


IN a battle for discourse dominance at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit (June 10 - June 12), Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto’s words may have been easily overlooked by many observers.

In fact, many policy makers and pundits were more interested in what United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin had to say about Taiwan, or how Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe would frame China’s progress in hypersonic weapons, than paying keen attention to Prabowo’s proposition of the Asian way.

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