Asia Centre

2-4 June 2006 /1 June 2007, Singapore. F. Godement participates regularly in the "East Asia Security Summit" which was established in 2002 under the sponsorship of the IISS . These summits, better known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, bring together in Singapore virtually all Asia-Pacific Defence Ministers and some of their European counterparts. Combining as it does both plenary sessions and less formal workshops, the Shangri-La Dialogue has become a privileged mechanism for discussion and analysis of security matters. In 2007, after years of maintaining a cautious distance, China sent as its delegate General Zhang Qinsheng, Deputy Chief of Staff of the PLA.