香格里拉对话 Shangri-La Dialogue

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My comment:
(a) Financial Times today reports (in print) that US secretary of defense will give a policy speech tomorrow (June 2), at said meeting.
(b) The following are organized latest first.

(1) 分析：梁光烈为何缺席对话会？ BBC Chinese, June 1, 2012.
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/worl ... a2_byjiangyue.shtml

Three consecutive paragraphs:

"让人吊诡的是，尽管'中国国内因素'急迫，梁光烈却在几天前亲自赴柬埔寨访问四天，出席东盟防长会议，参加中国与东盟国防部长会晤。

"他也在周一（5月28日）会见了菲律宾国防部长加斯明，并要求菲律宾尊重中国主权，不要再采取使事态更趋复杂化的举动。此外，他还会见了新加坡国防部长黄永宏，希望新加坡在涉及中国重大利益问题上给予支持。

"香格里拉对话会和东盟防长会议才相隔几天，而中国却因为一些'工作需要'无法安排防长出席这项重大的场合，让美国主导话语权，令梁光烈的缺席蒙上了神秘色彩，不免让人猜测中国或许在试图避开直接与美国针锋相对的局面，而选择在没有美国出席的会议上，直接与区域国家接触。

(2) '中国防长缺席 美国或主导对话.' BBC Chinese, June 1, 2012
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/worl ... pore_security.shtml
("尽管中国在亚太区域的角色日益重大，也是南海争端的主角之一，不过中国日前却宣布防长梁光烈不会出席对话会，取而代之的是中国人民解放军军事科学院副院长任海泉中将")

(3) '香格里拉对话'已成亚太重要安全论坛. BBC Chinese, May 30, 2012
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/worl ... rila_dialogue.shtml
(“'香格里拉对话'由英国智库国际战略研究所发起，在新加坡政府支持下于2002年开始举办，因首次会议在新加坡香格里拉饭店举行而得名")

, which is roughly translated from

Jonathan Marcus, China Factor to Dominate Top Defence Summit. BBC, May 31, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18260424

The first two paragraphs:

"In the absence of a formal defence alliance like Nato, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore has become the pre-eminent annual security gathering in the Asia-Pacific region.

"According to Dr John Chipman, the director-general and chief executive of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, who organise the gathering, 'the Shangri-La Dialogue is now commonly referred to as the 'indispensable forum' for Asian defence diplomacy.'