U.S.-Asia relations in the new administration
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Keynote address
The Trump administration brings with it great uncertainties for domestic and foreign policy. It faces a changing strategic landscape in Asia with shifting security dynamics and ongoing economic integration. The Trump administration’s Asia strategy remains in flux, and Asian countries are waiting to see how the president’s team of adviser’s formulate their policy toward the region.
On March 22 to 23, the Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies and John L. Thornton China Center, in conjunction with the Japan Center for Economic Research, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and the East Asia Institute, hosted leading experts from Southeast Asia, India, Japan, and Korea, to discuss the future contours of geopolitics and economic connectivity in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.
Agenda
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Keynote address
Stanley Roth
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific
Economic dynamics of the Asia-Pacific
Joseph Chinyong Liow
Former Brookings Expert
Dean and Professor of Comparative and International Politics - S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Kazumasa Iwata
President - Japan Center for Economic Research
Pravin Krishna
Distinguished Professor - Johns Hopkins University
Karen Pitakdumrongkit
Assistant Professor - S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Security dynamics of the Asia-Pacific
Ha Young-Sun
Chairman of the Trustees - East Asia Institute
Professor Emeritus - Seoul National University
Joseph Chinyong Liow
Former Brookings Expert
Dean and Professor of Comparative and International Politics - S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Tanvi Madan
Director - The India Project
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
Akihiko Tanaka
President - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
Suisheng Zhao
Director, Center for China-U.S. Cooperation - Professor, University of Denver
Concluding remarks
Evan S. Medeiros
Managing Director and Practice Head for Asia - Eurasia Group
Former Senior Director for Asia - National Security Council
Thursday, March 23, 2017
America's Future
Richard C. Bush
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Director - Center on the United States and Europe
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations
Conversations on key issues: Economic integration
Tanvi Madan
Director - The India Project
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
Claude E. Barfield
Resident Fellow - American Enterprise Institute
Kazumasa Iwata
President - Japan Center for Economic Research
Karen Pitakdumrongkit
Assistant Professor - S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Lunch
Keynote address
Michael Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Conversations on key issues: North Korea
Chun Chaesung
Chair - National Security Research Center, East Asia Institute
Professor - Seoul National University
Jonathan D. Pollack
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Wu Xinbo
Professor and Executive Director, Center for American Studies - Fudan University
Conversations on key issues: Maritime Asia
Richard C. Bush
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Bonnie Glaser
Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program - The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Sheila Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies - Council on Foreign Relations
Wu Xinbo
Professor and Executive Director, Center for American Studies - Fudan University
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