Alexandre Dayant is a senior economist and deputy director of the Lowy Institute's Center for Indo-Pacific Development. Grace Stanhope is a researcher at the Lowy Institute's Indo-Pacific Development Center working on the Southeast Asia Aid Map.
West focuses on Southeast Asia. That was the speech of defense and military leaders at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in June, where there was broad consensus on the strategic and geopolitical importance of the region's maritime theater and the wider Indo-Pacific.