Thank you very much for coming. This report, strategy in indopacific. Thanks to the contributors, it has happened. I appreciate your support in the participation today. We with like to thank japan foundation, center for Global Partnership for their support of this. The opinions in the report belong to the authors. Today after i introduce the report and contributors will talk. Now introduction. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude force the United States to address challenge. Vicepresident mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, very important, and said government approach using political, economic and military tools as well as propaganda to advance its influence and benefit its interest in the United States. Given the United States need to win the competition, cooperation with likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, in world war i, the winning side comprised 32 countri
During a speech at the Brookings Institution in washington, d. C. After he spoke, china policy experts talked about chinas Regional Power. And president xi jing pings leadership. Good morning. My name is bruce jones. Im the Vice President and the director for Foreign Policy here at brookings. It is my pleasure to welcome you here. I see lots of old friends in the audience and several new ones. Its a pleasure to invite you to our event. Im delighted to welcome randy back to brookings. Weve been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of our policy research. And while hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randal schreiber was appointed on jan 8th, 2018, prove lees having served for east asian and Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered china, taiwan, hong kong and aus tailia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of also served as an active duty Nav
Ok folks. Good afternoon. My name is john hammering. I am very pleased to have you all come, today. We will have a wonderful afternoon together. I look forward to this important conference. But i just say we have a little safety announcement for everyone. If we do have an incident where i have to ask you to get up and leave and follow me, the exits are right behind me. There are three doors. The stairs that take us to the street are closest to this door right here. We will no downstairs and meet across at National Geographic and get some ice cream or something. Just follow me if we need to do something. I need to give a bit of background for this project so that you understand what you are going to hear. This is a remarkably important thing because of the context of where we work. Ago, may, chairwoman fu ying, chairwoman of the Foreign Relations committee for the Peoples Congress came to me and said we think that the time is right for a serious study done by chinese think tank scholars
And china. We split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u. S. And chinese strategy and interest in the asiapacific region, and also u. S. China military to military issues. In the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. Scott kennedy will share that session. We had a number of participants who helped to write the papers or joined us in study groups to review the papers so this is a representative group, claiming that anyone who is involved but some of the key authors for each of the papers were going to address in the panels. Bonnie glaser, my colleague at csis and director by China Project will talk about the asiapacific papers. Were going to ask that panelists not to summarize the papers but identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. My friend zhu feng were present on the asiapacific strategy issue after bonnie. Then will ship to the military relationship. David finkelst
And china. We split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u. S. And chinese strategy and interest in the asiapacific region, and also u. S. China military to military issues. In the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. Scott kennedy will share that session. We had a number of participants who helped to write the papers or joined us in study groups to review the papers so this is a representative group, claiming that anyone who is involved but some of the key authors for each of the papers were going to address in the panels. Bonnie glaser, my colleague at csis and director by China Project will talk about the asiapacific papers. Were going to ask that panelists not to summarize the papers but identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. My friend zhu feng were present on the asiapacific strategy issue after bonnie. Then will ship to the military relationship. David finkelst