Moderators
Panel 1: Indo-Pacific Allies
Kuyoun Chung
Associate Professor, Political Science Department,
Kangwon National University
Sayuri Romei
Senior Fellow for Japan
German Marshall Fund
John Blaxland
Director of the ANU North America Liaison Office and Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies
Australian National University
Panel 2: Indo-Pacific Partners
Bich Tran
Senior Fellow
Verve Research
Joseph Chinyong Liow
Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Event Details
KEI is pleased to hold a program titled, Recalibration in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from the Region. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and ongoing U.S.-China strategic competition raises critical questions for U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific, including: Will narrowing strategic space between the United States and China force regional states into increasingly challenging foreign policy dilemmas? Alternatively, will regional states assert agency and seek greater autonomy? To what degree are we already in a multipolar international order and, if so, what affect will an intensifying U.S.-China competition have on that order?
Please come join KEI’s program with regional experts, which offers a two-part panel discussion featuring South Korea, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, and Singapore’s perspectives on these and other important questions facing the region. The panelists’ research will be featured in the spring/summer 2025 issue of KEI’s flagship journal, Korea Policy, due to be published in digital format in early June.
The two-part, hybrid panel event will run from 10:00AM-12:30PM ET at KEI’s office and be livestreamed on KEI’s YouTube channel. Lunch will be served for all in-person audience following the two-part panel.