KUALA LUMPUR: After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) was back in full swing at the weekend in that somewhat secluded corner just off the main streets of Singapore.

The size of the cohorts of SLD participants was supposedly slimmed down a bit perhaps due to lingering pandemic concerns, although the hustle and bustle of major defense delegations shuffling in and out of and through the majestic lobby, the grand ballroom and the cozy meeting rooms of the Shangri-La Hotel seemed as plentiful as ever. And the rhetorical intensity of the seniormost international interlocutors, as well as the consequent general "heat" of the discussion mood, were also as high as in most of the pre-pandemic SLDs.

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