Japan Finally Gets The G2 It Wants
– But At What Cost?By Daniel Sneider, Lecturer, International Policy at Stanford University, APP member.Toyo Keizai, April 3,2021When Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide walks into the Oval Office of the...
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THE FUTURE OF JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONS. 8:30-9:30am (EDT) WEBINAR. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Rumi Aoyama, Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University; Masafumi Iida, Head,...
View ArticleBehind North Korea’s Olympic Decision
– The “Worst-Ever Situation"Facing Kim Jong UnBy Daniel Sneider, Lecturer, International Policy at Stanford University and APP memberToyo Keizai, April 11, 2021The North Korean announcement that they...
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DO US-CHINA EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES SERVE AMERICAN INTERESTS? 9:00-10:30am (EDT). WEBCAST. Sponsor: John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution (Brookings). Speakers: Ambassador Julia Chang...
View ArticleAny Value to the Suga Visit
SS Vyner BrookeWhy Comfort Women Matter to the U.S.-Japan Values SummitGetting history right matters and Washington needs to hold its allies to the same moral values and standards that America and its...
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THE OCEAN: TURNING A CLIMATE CHANGE PROBLEM INTO A SOLUTION. 10:00-11:00am (EDT). WEBCAST. Sponsor: Global Europe Program, Wilson Center (WWC). Speakers: Hans-otto Pörtner, Researcher of Marine...
View ArticleJapan’s Looming Climate Showdown
Tokyo Has a Chance to Break Its Coal Addiction—and Spark a Regional Energy RevolutionBy Richard Katz, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and is writing a book on...
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY BUILDINGS AS A PATHWAY TO CARBON NEUTRALITY IN THE US AND CHINA. 9:00-10:15am (EDT), WEBCAST. Sponsor: China Environment Forum, Wilson Center (WWC). Speakers: Clay Nesler, Global...
View ArticleClyde Prestowitz takes issue with George Koo
Response to Asia Times critique of my book on China by George Kooclick to orderBy CLYDE PRESTOWITZ, President of the Economic Strategy Institute and APP memberAsia Times April 26, 2021I must begin by...
View ArticleThe Japan-Korea History Wars
Will Not End, For NowBy Daniel Sneider, Lecturer, International Policy at Stanford University and APP MemberToyo Keizai, April 30, 2021Inside the Biden administration, there is a deepening frustration...
View ArticleMonday Asia Events, May 3, 2021
May 3-5 - G7 Foreign and Development Minister’s Meeting in London,invited additional countries to join as guests at the meeting, including Australia, India, South Africa, the Republic of Korea, and...
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SUSTAINABLY RECOVERING FROM THE PANDEMIC. 2:00-7:00pm (CEST). LIVESTREAM. Sponsor: Heinrich Böll Foundation. Speakers: Rasmus Andresen, MEP, EFA/Greens; Franziska Brantner, German MP, Alliance90/The...
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MULTILATERAL COOPERATION IN NORTHEAST ASIA IN THE BIDEN ERA. 9:00-11:00am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsors: Institute for Korean Studies and East Asia National Resource Center, George Washington...
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CHINA AND THE PARIS CLUB. Noon-1:00pm (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Chinese Foreign Policy Project, China Program, Stimson. Speakers: Scott Morris, Director of the US Development Policy Initiative,...
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CHINA’S CIVILIAN ARMY: THE MAKING OF WOLF WARRIOR DIPLOMACY. 6/7, 9:30-10:30am (EDT). WEBCAST. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Author, Peter Martin, Political Correspondent, Bloomberg News; Bonnie S. Glaser,...
View ArticleMonday Asia Events, June 14, 2021
Flag Day in the U.S.The Facts. In 2007, members of the Japanese rightwing published in the Washington Post a full page advertorial "The Facts"condemning the Comfort Women--sex slaves for Imperial...
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE RULES AND WEALTH OF POLITICIANS. 6/21, 9:00am-12:30pm (EDT), ZOOM. Sponsor: Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP). Speakers: Marko Klašnja, Assistant Professor, Georgetown...
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BUY AMERICA MEETS STRATEGIC AUTONOMY. 6/28, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Kerstin Jorna, Director General of Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs, European...
View ArticleDoes Biden have a North Korea Policy?
Not ReallyBy Daniel Sneider : Lecturer, International Policy at Stanford University and APP memberToyo Keizai, June 29,2021Speculation about a resumption of negotiations between North Korea and the...
View ArticleA Leadership Vacuum
On Japan–South Korea cooperationEast Asia Forum, 11 July 2021by Daniel Sneider, Lecturer in International Policy and East Asian Studies at Stanford University and APP memberThe dysfunctionality of...
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