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I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This episode will drop for the

public the very day that the 20th AAWS Shangri-Lah Dialogue opens in Singapore.

Put on each year by the International Institute for Strategic Studies,

it's described by some as the Munich Security Conference for Asia.

And given all the attention currently being paid to security issues in that region,

for better or for worse, the Shangri-La dialogue has taken on

increasing importance in recent years. This week on Cineca, I am delighted to have as my guest,

James Crabtree, who is executive director for Asia of I-I-W-S, and it is no exaggeration

at all there for it to say that he's the man running the show when it comes to the Shangri-La dialogue.

James has had a fascinating career, including a long stint as a journalist with, among other fine publications,

Prospect and The Financial Times, where he served as Mumbai Bureau Chief for several years.

He is the author of The Billionaire Raj, a journey through India's Gilded Age, and he continues to

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