THE recent inaugural alumni gathering co-hosted by the Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security (MiDAS) and the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) was, on its face, a modest affair.
No treaty was signed and no communique issued. Yet, it pointed to something headline diplomacy often obscures – the slow, cumulative work through which states build trust.
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