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Moderators

Arius Derr

Arius Derr

Director of Communications

Korea Economic Institute of America

Panel 1: Indo-Pacific Allies

Kuyoun Chung

Kuyoun Chung

Associate Professor, Political Science Department,

Kangwon National University

Sayuri Romei

Sayuri Romei

Senior Fellow for Japan

German Marshall Fund

John Blaxland

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

Bich Tran

Senior Fellow

Verve Research

Joseph Chinyong Liow

Joseph Chinyong Liow

Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Event Details

April 9, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET
KEI Conference Facility and YouTube
Indo-Pacific

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.