King, Amy2025-02-122025-02-121839-0242https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733735221Amid the escalating US–China trade war, all eyes were on US Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue. Those hoping for fireworks would have been disappointed. Shanahan offered a mild restatement of the Trump administration’s 'Free and Open Indo-Pacific' strategy, while Wei gave a robust but unsurprising rehearsal of China’s long-held core interests — particularly on the question of Taiwan.application/pdfen-AUhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/2019-06-092023-12-24Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.