This afternoon, we had the honor of welcoming a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany to CPG for a background briefing on the evolving security landscape in Asia.
The delegation was led by Colonel Ingo Stüer, Division Head for International Security Policy and Bilateral Relations at the Directorate for Security and Defence Policy, and included Lieutenant Colonel Gereon Buchholz, Ms. Isabeau Höhn (both from the Directorate for Security and Defence Policy), and Lieutenant Colonel Philipp Doert, Defence Attaché at the German Embassy in Bangkok.
Their visit to CPG followed high-level discussions at Thailand’s Ministry of Defense as part of the 7th Thai-German Security Policy Staff Talks.
The briefing was delivered by Henning Glaser, Director of CPG, and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, CPG Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of the South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN), Washington D.C.