Asia Program Conference:

Sea Change? Conflicting Claims, Disparate Agendas and

U.S.-China Maritime Security Relations

May 13, 2010 / Washington DC

A symposium to address issues in U.S.-China and Northeast Asian regional security relations that arise from China�s growing maritime power, conflicting claims of maritime and territorial sovereignty in the ocean areas adjacent to China and the rights of foreign military craft to operate in the region, including China's claimed exclusive economic zone. The session will address the prospects for conflict and accommodation, the merits of the principal parties' claims, and the significance of these issues for broader U.S.-China relations. Implications for Japan's role and Sino-Japanese relations will be addressed as well.

Welcoming Remarks

Robert Feidler, Director, Strategic Defense Education, Reserve Officers Association
Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI

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Panel I: Implications of China's Rising Maritime Power and U.S. and Japanese Responses

Panelists

Avery Goldstein, David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations and Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania; Senior Fellow, FPRI
Lt. Col. James R. Kendall, Foreign Area Officer, USMC, Deterrence by Presence to Effective Response: Japan's Shift Southward
Felix Chang, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Moderator: Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

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Panel II: Contested Claims: Territorial Sovereignty and Rights of Operation / Rules of the Road for Military Craft

Panelists

Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Dutton, Associate Professor, U.S. Naval War College and a founding member of the China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College
Xinjun Zhang, Associate Professor of Public International Law at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Fulbright Scholar (2009-10), University of Pennsylvania Law School
Moderator: Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI

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