Former Straits Times editor-in-chief Warren Fernandez writes with characteristic elegance in his latest RSIS piece, “With or Without You: The U2 Doctrine Comes to Shangri-La”, carried in The Straits Times on June 3, 2026. The piece gives cause for three reflections from this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue: whether middle power coalitions can substitute for hard power; […]

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