US-East Asia Relations: A Strategy for Multilateral Engagement
VIEW EVENT DETAILSAsia Society Task Force Report Launch
You are cordially invited to the launch of the Asia Society Task Force Report: U.S.-East Asia Relations: A Strategy for Multilateral Engagement
Simon Tay, Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, in conversation with Parag Khanna, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
As the Obama administration strengthens America's presence in East Asia, it finds a region transformed since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Since that time, East Asians have expressed a growing and layered approach in regionalism ranging from free trade and economic agreements among neighboring countries, to ministerial meetings and summitry in the ASEAN+3 and East Asian Summit processes. Despite these variations, the phenomenon of East Asian regionalism has shared a common feature: it has thrived on an intra-Asian basis that largely excluded the U.S. Given the current economic and political climate, the U.S. cannot afford to remain on the outside any longer. As the 2011 APEC Leaders Week concludes in Hawaii, the Task Force calls on the Obama Administration to renew and deepen U.S. engagement with Asia on a multilateral basis and has outlined clear steps to do so.
The Task Force is co-directed by Simon Tay and Michael G. Kulma, Executive Director of Global Leadership Initiatives at the Asia Society.
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