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In mid-November, President Barack Obama began his first trip to Asia as president with a visit to Tokyo. He also traveled to China, South Korea and Singapore, where took part in meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
Prior to the president’s trip, the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies and the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted a discussion of President Obama’s trip and the issues he was likely to face. Jeffrey Bader, special assistant to the president and senior director for East Asian affairs on the National Security Council, provided a keynote address outlining the White House’s strategy for the trip. A panel of leading experts then focused on each stop in President Obama’s journey, analyzing, as appropriate, environmental cooperation, trade issues, alliance management, and regional security challenges.
After the programs, panelists took audience questions.
Obama Goes to Asia: Understanding the President’s Trip
Agenda
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November 6
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Introduction
Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center -
Moderator
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Keynote Address
AJBAmbassador Jeffrey Bader Director, Brookings China Initiative; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings -
Panelists
RDRust Deming Adjunct Professor, Japan Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins UniversitySRStapleton Roy Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for ScholarsCBClaude Barfield Resident Scholar, American Enterprise InstituteLGFL. Gordon Flake Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
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