Defense Minister Beit Higseth and Director of National Intelligence Tolsi Gabbard is leading an American delegation to Singapore this week to attend the Shangri L dialogue, the first security summit in Asia, another indication of the intense Trump administration focus on the Indian Pacific region.
The summit will prepare more than 550 delegates from 40 countries, including military leaders, intelligence, business and security, from all over the Asia Pacific region, Europe and North America.
The twenty -second annual summit, hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which lasts from May 30 to June 2 in Singapore.
Gabbard’s discussion is expected to discuss the main security challenges “with leaders, a source familiar with Gabbard’s plans for ABC News. The source added that the United States delegation for this year includes higher representation than what it was in previous years.
The Shangri-La dialogue is the defense summit in Upper Asia, similar to the Raisina dialogue and the Munich Security Conference, both of whom attended Gabbard earlier this year.
This journey represents the second journey of Japdard to Asia in recent weeks, apparently enhancing the renewed concentration of the Trump administration on the region.
Shortly after her assertion, Gabbard traveled to India and met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before President Donald Trump’s bilateral meeting with Moody in February.
Her relationship with Modi extends more than a decade, dates back to 2013 when she became the first Hindu member of Congress. They met again during her visit to India 2014 at the invitation of Modi.
Earlier this year, Gabbard accepted a call from Moody to speak in the Raisina dialogue in New Delhi, a multilateral conference on political geography and geological gaps, but before returning to Washington, DC, Gabbard stopped in Japan, Thailand and France. Honollo’s diplomatic tour, Hawaii – began her hometown – where she represented the state in Congress for eight years.
While he was in Hawaii, Gabbard met with intelligence community partners and visited the USA headquarters in Honolulu.
In Singapore this week, bilateral meetings with regional leaders will be held “exploring opportunities to draw a road that advances in mutual interests of security, peace and prosperity in the region,” according to a source familiar with the agenda.
A long time before the intelligence community took, Gabbard was already on the ground in Southeast Asia, and in 2019 while nominating the presidency, she temporarily stopped her two -week campaign to work in active service with the National Guard of the American Army in Jakarta, Indonesia, and became the first candidate in modern history.
Now, as a director of national intelligence, her return to the region is determined by a transformation from military service to high -risk diplomacy, a development that does not only emphasize its personal and long strategic relations with the Indian and Pacific regions, but it also indicates the efforts of the broader administration to raise US participation in the region
