Ambassador Shyam Saran is a Honorary Senior Faculty and Member of the Governing Board at Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change.

Prof. Moon and Dr. Choi note that inter-Korean relations will remain stalled under Pyongyang’s ‘hostile two states’ policy, and that North Korea will seek to deepen ties with 🇨🇳, sustain cooperation with 🇷🇺, and keep the door ajar to selective engagement with 🇺🇸 amid persistent uncertainty.

Prof. Moon argued that South Korea should consider transitioning from an alliance-centric collective defence posture to broader collective security arrangements based on multilateral security cooperation regimes.

Dr Wu Chunsi is the Director of the Center for American Studies, and senior fellow of the Institute for International Strategic and Security Studies, her research interests include Chinese-U.S. security relations, arms control, nuclear deterrence, and Northeast Asia security.

Dr. Wu observes that the consensus reached in Busan provides a foundation to manage differences and stabilise bilateral relations.

The two leaders formally endorsed the Kuala Lumpur framework agreement on tariffs and export controls, agreed to maintain high-level communication, and committed to continuing the 🇨🇳-🇺🇸 Economic and Trade Consultation Mechanism.

This report is produced as part of the third year of APLN’s project on Nuclear Disarmament and the Anthropocene: Voices from Pacific Island Countries. The project is supported by the Ploughshares Fund @ploughshares.bsky.social under the Equity Rises Initiative. (6/6)

Read the full report of the 'Suva Dialogue on Security in the Pacific and Asia,' available on the APLN website here: www.apln.network/projects/voi...
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At a time of intensifying geopolitical pressures, this report offers a refreshing alternative to binary thinking about regional security. The reports calls for Pacific and Asian states to act as "players, not pawns," asserting agency in the regional security architecture. (4/6)

The report, authored by Dr Tanvi Kulkarni, Senior Policy Fellow at APLN, and Ms Elaine Natalie, former Policy Fellow at APLN, presents a comprehensive roadmap for Asia-Pacific collaboration that prioritises indigenous perspectives and regional solutions over externally imposed frameworks. (3/6)

The report is based on discussions at APLN's Track II 'Suva Dialogue', held in Fiji in Apr '25, which brought together 20 leading experts from 13 Asia-Pacific nations to strengthen regional agency and foster cooperation on shared nuclear and climate security challenges. (2/6)