--- title: "AISSE’27 2027 — Kuala Lumpur | Model Diplomat" description: "Asia International Security Summit & Expo 2027 (AISSE’27) is a professional conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jan 26–28, 2027." url: "https://modeldiplomat.com/conferences/professional/asia-international-security-summit-expo-2027-aisse27-2027" --- # Asia International Security Summit & Expo 2027 (AISSE’27) Jan 26–28, 2027[Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1\&query=Kuala%20Lumpur%2C%20Malaysia)In-person [Registration open](https://capitalpost.com.my/) The Asia International Security Summit & Expo 2027 (AISSE’27) is a significant gathering focused on enhancing security cooperation and strategies across the Asian region. Hosted in Kuala Lumpur, MYS, this event brings together stakeholders to address contemporary security challenges and foster collaborative solutions. The summit serves as a platform for dialogue, exhibition, and networking among professionals dedicated to regional stability and defense. ## Committees & topics - Topics National Security in the Asia-Pacific · Public Order and Internal Security · Security Technologies and Emerging Defense Systems · Enforcement Technologies for Law and Border Security · Cybersecurity and the Defense of Digital Infrastructure ## Why it matters The AISSE’27 is crucial for understanding the evolving security landscape in Asia. The region faces a complex array of challenges, from traditional geopolitical tensions to emerging threats such as cyber warfare and transnational crime. Events like this summit provide a vital forum for countries to share intelligence, develop joint strategies, and build the necessary trust to counter these multifaceted dangers effectively. Furthermore, the summit's focus on security cooperation underscores the interconnectedness of national security with regional stability. In an era where threats often transcend national borders, collective action and shared understanding are paramount. The discussions and partnerships forged at AISSE’27 can significantly influence the future of security policy and defense capabilities across Asia, impacting not only the participating nations but also global security dynamics. ## How to prepare Delegates preparing for the AISSE’27 should focus on understanding the diverse security landscapes of the Asian region. This involves researching the specific challenges and priorities of various countries, especially those with significant roles in regional security. A thorough understanding of current geopolitical tensions, economic interdependencies, and technological advancements relevant to security will be beneficial. Effective participation will require a strategic approach to engagement. Delegates should consider how their national interests align with broader regional security objectives and be prepared to articulate their country's position on key issues. Utilizing frameworks such as `what-is-stakeholder-mapping` and `dynamic-analysis` can help in identifying key actors and potential areas of collaboration or contention. Furthermore, understanding `engagement-strategies` will be critical for fostering productive discussions and forging meaningful partnerships during the summit in Kuala Lumpur, MYS. ## Country perspectives Where the most-relevant 5 countries stand on the core issues in play. Click through for the full country profile. [Malaysia](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/malaysia) [As the host nation, MYS is keen to showcase its commitment to regional security and facilitate dialogue among Asian nations.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/malaysia) [Role in topic](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/malaysia) [MYS plays a central role in organizing and setting the agenda for the summit, aiming to foster cooperation and address shared security concerns in Southeast Asia and the broader Asian region.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/malaysia) [China](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [CHN is a major regional power with significant security interests, likely seeking to influence discussions on maritime security and regional stability.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [Role in topic](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [Given its economic and military influence, CHN's perspective on regional security, particularly regarding maritime disputes and strategic partnerships, will be a key factor in discussions.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [United States](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [The USA maintains a strong security presence in Asia and will likely advocate for a free and open Indo-Pacific, emphasizing alliances and partnerships.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [Role in topic](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [The USA's role as an external security guarantor and its network of alliances in the region mean its input on defense cooperation, technological sharing, and geopolitical stability will be significant.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [Japan](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) [JPN is focused on maritime security, cyber defense, and strengthening alliances to counter regional threats.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) [Role in topic](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) [JPN's advanced technological capabilities and its strategic alliances make it a crucial voice in discussions on defense innovation and regional security architecture.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) [India](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) [IND is a growing power with interests in counter-terrorism, maritime security in the Indian Ocean, and regional strategic balance.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) [Role in topic](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) [IND's perspective on counter-terrorism, disaster response, and its role in balancing power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific will be important for comprehensive security discussions.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) ## Topics & background The background behind each topic and the actors that shape it. 1 ### National Security in the Asia-Pacific National security across the Asia-Pacific has been reshaped over the past two decades by the rise of China as a peer military competitor to the United States, the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, persistent maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, and the consolidation of strategic alignments such as the Quad (United States, Japan, India, Australia) and AUKUS (United States, United Kingdom, Australia). Older flashpoints — Taiwan, Kashmir, the Sino-Indian Line of Actual Control, and the Korean DMZ — have all seen renewed military activity since 2020, while ASEAN states have struggled to maintain centrality amid intensifying great-power competition. The region's security agenda has also broadened beyond traditional military threats. Energy and food security, climate-driven displacement, demographic strain, and supply-chain dependencies (notably in semiconductors and critical minerals) are now treated as core national security concerns by most Asian governments. Japan's 2022 National Security Strategy, South Korea's Indo-Pacific Strategy, and India's evolving doctrine all reflect this hybrid framing. Today the central dispute is how to manage deterrence and de-escalation simultaneously: how to deter coercion (against Taiwan, in the South China Sea, along the LAC) without sliding into a self-reinforcing arms race, and how to build crisis-management mechanisms in a region that lacks the dense arms-control architecture of Cold War Europe. Key players - [China](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [Rising regional power driving most major security recalculations across Asia.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) - [United States](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [Treaty-ally hub and primary external balancer through Quad, AUKUS, and bilateral pacts.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) - [Japan](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) [Reorienting toward counter-strike capability and doubling defense spending under its 2022 NSS.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) - [India](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) [Manages two-front pressures with China and Pakistan while expanding Indo-Pacific role.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) - [South Korea](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/south-korea) [Front-line state facing DPRK nuclear threat; deepening trilateral ties with USA and Japan.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/south-korea) - [Australia](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/australia) [AUKUS partner acquiring nuclear-powered submarines and anchoring southern Indo-Pacific deterrence.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/australia) 2 ### Public Order and Internal Security Public order — the state's capacity to maintain civil peace, manage protests, counter organized crime, and respond to terrorism — has become a contested policy space across Asia. Since the 2019–2020 protest waves in Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, and India, governments have expanded police powers, public-assembly laws, and digital surveillance, while civil-society groups and international human-rights bodies have challenged the proportionality of these measures. The 2021 Myanmar coup and the subsequent civil conflict demonstrated how rapidly public-order tools can be repurposed for political repression. Transnational organized crime is a second pillar of the agenda. Southeast Asia hosts industrial-scale cyber-scam compounds along the Mekong, narcotics trafficking from the Golden Triangle, and human-trafficking networks documented by UNODC. South Asia continues to grapple with insurgencies and communal violence, while Central Asia faces spillover from Afghanistan since the Taliban's 2021 return to power. The core dispute today is the balance between security and rights: how states can preserve order in plural, urbanizing societies without eroding the rule of law, and how regional bodies — ASEAN, SAARC, the SCO — can cooperate on cross-border crime without exporting authoritarian practices. Key players - [China](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [Exporter of public-security models, surveillance platforms, and SCO-led counter-extremism cooperation.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) - [India](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) [Major democracy balancing counter-terrorism, communal tensions, and large-scale protest policing.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) - [Indonesia](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/indonesia) [ASEAN's largest state, active on counter-terrorism after Bali and Jakarta attacks.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/indonesia) - [Thailand](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/thailand) [Hub for Mekong-region transnational crime cooperation and contested protest-management laws.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/thailand) - [Philippines](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/philippines) [Notable for its drug-war policing model and ongoing ICC scrutiny.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/philippines) - [Myanmar](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/myanmar) [Post-coup case study in the collapse of public order into armed conflict.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/myanmar) 3 ### Security Technologies and Emerging Defense Systems Security technologies — encompassing surveillance, biometrics, AI-enabled analytics, drones, and integrated command systems — have become central to Asian defense and homeland-security planning. China's civil-military fusion strategy, India's iDEX and Atmanirbhar Bharat initiatives, Japan's loosening of defense-export restrictions, and South Korea's emergence as a top-ten arms exporter have all accelerated regional capability growth. The proliferation of commercial drones, demonstrated in conflicts from Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine, has filtered into Asian doctrine and procurement at speed. At the same time, dual-use technologies raise governance challenges. Facial recognition deployed for crowd safety can enable mass surveillance; AI targeting tools blur the line between decision-support and autonomous action; commercial satellite imagery now provides intelligence formerly monopolized by states. The UN Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems has not produced binding rules, and Asian states are split between those favoring a treaty (advocated by parts of the Non-Aligned Movement) and those preferring non-binding norms (China, Russia, the United States, India, and Israel-aligned exporters). The contemporary debate is over standards, export controls, and human oversight: whether to harmonize on Wassenaar-style regimes, build Asian-specific frameworks, or allow market-driven diffusion to continue setting the pace. Key players - [China](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [Leading developer and exporter of AI surveillance, drones, and integrated security platforms.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) - [United States](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [Sets export-control benchmarks and supplies allies with advanced ISR and missile-defense systems.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) - [Israel](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/israel) [Major supplier of UAVs, missile defense, and cyber tools to Asian buyers including India.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/israel) - [South Korea](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/south-korea) [Fast-rising defense exporter providing armored vehicles, artillery, and aircraft across the region.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/south-korea) - [India](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) [Large procurer and emerging producer pushing indigenous defense tech under Make in India.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) - [Japan](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) [Reforming defense-export rules and investing in next-gen fighter (GCAP) and missile capability.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) 4 ### Enforcement Technologies for Law and Border Security Enforcement technologies — non-lethal weapons, body-worn cameras, automated license-plate recognition, biometric border systems, lawful-intercept tooling, and predictive policing — have spread rapidly across Asian law-enforcement agencies. India's Aadhaar-linked policing databases, China's Sharp Eyes and Skynet programs, Singapore's Safe City platforms, and the Gulf-Asia trade in lawful-intercept equipment illustrate the breadth of deployment. Border-management technologies have expanded in parallel, driven by migration pressures, counter-trafficking obligations, and post-pandemic health screening. These tools sit at the intersection of several international regimes: the Wassenaar Arrangement covers some surveillance exports, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime shapes anti-trafficking enforcement, and ICAO standards govern biometric travel documents. However, oversight remains uneven. Investigations by Citizen Lab, Amnesty International, and journalists have documented misuse of commercial spyware (notably Pegasus) against journalists and opposition figures in several Asian states, prompting calls for stricter human-rights due diligence on enforcement-tech exports. The central question is how to keep enforcement effective against genuine threats — trafficking, terrorism, financial crime — while preventing tools designed for policing from becoming instruments of political control or cross-border repression. Key players - [China](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [Largest exporter of integrated policing, surveillance, and border-control technology to developing Asia.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) - [India](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) [Operates one of the world's largest biometric ID and policing-data ecosystems.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/india) - [Singapore](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/singapore) [Benchmark for smart-city public-safety integration and lawful regulatory frameworks.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/singapore) - [United Arab Emirates](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-arab-emirates) [Major Gulf hub procuring and re-exporting enforcement and surveillance technologies into Asia.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-arab-emirates) - [United States](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [Key source of forensic, biometric, and cyber-enforcement tools and of export-control pressure.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) - [Israel](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/israel) [Origin of widely deployed lawful-intercept and cyber-enforcement products, including contested spyware.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/israel) 5 ### Cybersecurity and the Defense of Digital Infrastructure Asia is now the most contested cyberspace in the world. State-linked intrusion sets attributed to China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran have targeted government networks, defense contractors, telecommunications operators, and critical infrastructure across the region, while ransomware and cyber-enabled financial crime — particularly North Korea's cryptocurrency theft operations — have grown into strategic-scale threats. The 2017 WannaCry incident, repeated attacks on Indian and Japanese networks, and persistent operations against Taiwan illustrate the breadth of activity. The multilateral framework has evolved through the UN Group of Governmental Experts and the Open-Ended Working Group on ICTs, which produced consensus reports affirming that existing international law applies to cyberspace and articulating eleven voluntary norms of responsible state behavior. Implementation, however, remains weak: attribution is contested, capacity is unevenly distributed, and major Asian powers disagree on whether a new binding treaty (favored by China and Russia) or the current norms-plus-confidence-building approach (favored by the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Australia) is preferable. The current focus is on protecting critical infrastructure — energy grids, ports, financial systems, undersea cables, and increasingly AI model infrastructure — and on building regional CERT cooperation, particularly through ASEAN's Cybersecurity Cooperation Strategy and bilateral Quad initiatives. Key players - [China](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) [Major cyber power and lead proponent of state-sovereignty-based cyberspace governance.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/china) - [United States](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) [Anchors allied cyber defense cooperation and pushes the existing norms-based UN framework.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/united-states) - [North Korea](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/north-korea) [Conducts state-directed cyber theft, including large-scale crypto-asset operations, to fund its programs.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/north-korea) - [Japan](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) [Upgrading active cyber defense authorities and leading Quad cybersecurity initiatives.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/japan) - [South Korea](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/south-korea) [Front-line target of DPRK operations and a growing regional cyber-capability provider.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/south-korea) - [Singapore](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/singapore) [ASEAN cyber-coordination hub hosting the ASEAN-Singapore Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence.](https://modeldiplomat.com/country/singapore) ## Resources News, lessons, and country profiles to prep for Asia International Security Summit & Expo 2027 (AISSE’27). 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