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Upon registering for this webinar, you will then receive a confirmation email. If you do not, please check your Spam folder. If you still do not see the email within 24 hours or have other questions please email Mrs. Sarah Wang at wangs@eastwestcenter.org. The confirmation email will provide you with a unique link to join the seminar. Do not share this with anyone else.
As an Attendee in a Zoom Webinar, your microphone will be muted and video turned off from the start of the presentation to cut down on noise interference and to maintain security. Webinar attendees will be welcome to ask questions via the Q&A box throughout the discussion.
U.S. Department of Defense
Moderator)
Director, East-West Center in Washington
Members of Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki s advisory group, the Bankoku Shinryō Council on U.S. Military Base Issues, discussed the findings and recommendations contained in their March 2021 report. After initial remarks by Governor Tamaki (English translation here), members of the Council addressed the following issues (PowerPoints available here): (1) the need to reconsider the Futenma Replacement Facility project at Henoko and eliminate the dangers from Futenma Air Station, (2) implications of US-China strategic competition for Okinawa, (3) new operational concepts of the US military and their implications for US bases in Okinawa, (4) Indo-Pacific diplomacy and Okinawa, and (5) the US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement and the impact of US military training on local communities in Okinawa and the rest of Japan.
Developing Asia’s recovery has strengthened. Manufacturing and trade have rebounded, remittances have been relatively resilient, and policy support has been strong. But outbreaks are reemerging, vaccination efforts face challenges, and tourism remains hobbled. For this webinar, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Chief Economist Yasuyuki Sawada discussed findings from ADB’s flagship economic publication, the
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Lesley Bearman Lahm is North American Representative of the Asian Development Bank. In this role, Ms. Lahm mobilizes financing and support for ADB’s developing member countries; shares development knowledge and experience; establishes and deepens partnerships with public, private, and nonprofit organizations in North America; and raises public awareness of ADB with key stakeholders in Canada and the United States. Ms. Lahm previously led strategy and policy development coordination for key strategic and institutional considerations relating to non-sovereign
This webinar discussed the long arc of North Korea’s engagement with Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, beginning with Pyongyang’s early involvement in the Non-Aligned Movement and its support for various revolutionary and anti-imperialist causes. The discussion highlighted key turning points as North Korea’s activities with countries in the “Global South” became less about ideological affinity and more transactional, and will ask what significance these relationships continue to have.
This
North Korea in the World webinar was first in a series examining North Korea’s historical and contemporary relations with countries in the Global South, with subsequent webinars taking a closer look at Pyongyang’s relations with specific countries or subregions. The