Asia Program

The U.S. Elections and America’s Role in East Asia: Views from the Region

November 19, 2008

This roundtable discussion featured Da Wei, Associate Research Professor and Washington representative of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Keiko Iizuka, Deputy Political Editor and former chief correspondent covering Japan’s prime minister’s office and foreign ministry of the Yomiuri Shimbun, and Visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution; and Chong-pin Lin, Professor of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, Tamkang University and former Deputy Minister of National Defense and Senior Advisor to the National Security Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The event was moderated by Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania and Director of FPRI's Asia Program.


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