Dr. Satu P. Limaye (
Moderator)
Director, East-West Center in Washington
Within the past six months, the United States and Japan have both elected new leaders and now must address questions of where the alliance stands and where it is headed. The East-West Center in Washington, in partnership with
Tokyo Review, held an in-depth discussion with authors from the latest
Asia Pacific Bulletin series to explore the possibilities for continuing and creating new pathways of cooperation between the United States and Japan under the Biden and Suga administrations.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Sean Connell is a senior fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and a former visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Washington. Previously, he was director for Japan and Korea, and executive director of the US-Korea Business Council, at the United States Chamber of Commerce. He was a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi Fellow based at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Ind
During this program, the East-West Center released the Report from the
Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers. This webinar featured discussions with U.S. government officials and Southeast Asian ambassadors on the report, which details the findings of the October 2020 Conference that convened partners and stakeholders from across the Indo-Pacific region to share best practices and lessons learned related to the cooperative development and management of transboundary rivers. The engaging and constructive discussion with leading experts, institutions, and opinion leaders drew lessons from experiences of other partners beyond the Indo-Pacific, including from the European Union, to address rising environmental, economic, development, and political challenges in the Mekong River Basin.
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explains in
Where Great Powers Meet, the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power, which is intensifying across Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant region and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine the future of the entire Indo-Pacific regional order. Specifically, Dr. Shambaugh explores whether the region is becoming a new Chinese sphere of influence or whether the ASEAN states will be able to successfully hedge and maintain a multinational balance of power. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global power transition occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator of how it may play out elsewhere.