SINGAPORE - It may have been the namesake of the fictional paradise in British author James Hilton’s Lost Horizon, but the Shangri-La Dialogue was anything but.
New Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth’s debut address at the key annual security forum might have assured allies the Indo-Pacific remains its “priority theatre”, pledging to prevent war and deter aggression so that “shared interests align for peace and prosperity”.
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