Finally, there have been multilateral security dialogues – the ASEAN Regional Forum and now the East Asia Summit the most prominent among them – designed to be vehicles for confidence building, and conflict prevention and management. These mechanisms have so far promised more than they have delivered, though not for want of continuing efforts to give them more clout.
最后是多边安全对话——以东盟安全论坛（ASEAN Regional Forum）和最近的东亚峰会（East Asia Summit）最为重要。这些多边完全对话的目的是建立信心、预防和管理冲突。目前这些机制都是雷声大雨点小，但并不缺乏让它们日后变得更加有力的努力。