{"id":830338,"date":"2026-05-29T15:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/830338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:32:34","slug":"shangri-la-dialogue-vietnams-to-lam-warns-of-3-crises-converging-in-asia-pacific-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/830338\/","title":{"rendered":"Shangri-La Dialogue: Vietnam\u2019s To Lam warns of 3 crises converging in Asia-Pacific security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vietnam<\/a>\u2019s leader To Lam<\/a> on Friday struck a sombre tone at a summit when he warned of three foundational crises converging to cause global instabilities \u2013 those of international order, development models and strategic trust.He was delivering the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue<\/a> in Singapore<\/a>, Asia\u2019s premier defence forum, in his first speech on Vietnam\u2019s foreign policy to an international audience since being elected president in April.<\/p>\n

Speaking to defence ministers, military chiefs, diplomats and analysts at the 23rd edition of the dialogue, Lam said the three crises \u2013 a changing world order where might was right, the erosion of globalisation and the loss of trust among countries \u2013 reinforced each other and converged most clearly in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the world\u2019s most dynamic centre of growth, but also a theatre of intense strategic competition, a region defined by vital maritime routes, yet fraught with risk at sea; a region that benefited profoundly from globalisation, yet now faces mounting pressure from supply chain fragmentation, climate change, technological transition and emerging geoeconomic competition,\u201d said Lam, the president and general secretary of Vietnam\u2019s Communist Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrecisely because it is where these challenges converge, the Asia-Pacific must also become where solutions emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Vietnam\u2019sVietnam\u2019s President To Lam (centre) walks with Singapore\u2019s Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing (centre right) during the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on Friday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

On the crisis of strategic trust, Lam called this \u201ca silent yet dangerous crisis\u201d that caused states to interpret actions through mistrust and anxiety, a situation made more complex by rapid developments in emerging technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vietnam\u2019s leader To Lam on Friday struck a sombre tone at a summit when he warned of three…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":830339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[26552,13214,9710,1582,276,74,93293,2961,185749,224,5337,24531,41351,340681,23134,340751,340752,15336,2058],"class_list":["post-830338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-asean","tag-asia-pacific","tag-beijing","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-china","tag-hanoi","tag-la","tag-lawrence-wong","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-moscow","tag-pyongyang","tag-shangri-la-dialogue","tag-singapore","tag-tharman","tag-to-lam","tag-vietnam","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116658593141162570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}