Singapore ¨C With U.S.-China relations on a dangerous downward spiral, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used a keynote speech at Asia¡¯s top regional security conference to call on the two superpowers to re-open high-level communication channels and establish guardrails to prevent the situation from veering into conflict.
¡°This isn¡¯t about a policy of containment. It¡¯s not a question of placing obstacles in the way of any nation¡¯s progress or their potential,¡± Albanese said in a keynote speech Friday to kick off this year¡¯s Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore.
¡°This is a matter of simple, practical structures to prevent a worst-case scenario,¡± he said, adding that the ¡°essential precondition¡± for this is ¡°dialogue.¡±
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