Monday Asia Policy Events, July 21, 2025

INDIA IN THE EVOLVING WORLD ORDER: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASEAN AND BEYOND. 7/21, 2:30-4:00pm (SGT), 2:30-4:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS); Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS). Speakers: Choi Shing Kwok, Director and Chief Executive Officer, Yusof Ishak Institute; Dr. Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India; Iqbal Singh Sevea, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. 

INTERNATIONAL TAX COOPERATION AND COMPETITION: A RESET. 7/21, 8:30am-2:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: AEI. Speakers: Peter A. Barnes, Of Counsel, Caplin & Drysdale; Daniel Bunn, President, Tax Foundation; Nathaniel Carden, Partner, International Tax; Tax Controversy and Litigation, Skadden; Ron Estes, US House of Representatives (Kansas); Michael J. Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale University; Mindy Herzfeld, Professor of Practice, University of Florida; Michael Knoll, Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Adam N. Michel, Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; William Morris, Global Tax Policy Leader, PwC US; Michael Plowgian, Principal, KPMG; Kyle Pomerleau, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Julie A. Roin, Seymour Logan Professor of Law, University of Chicago; Karl Russo, National Economics and Statistics Leader, PwC; Luisa Scarcella, Global Policy Lead, International Chamber of Commerce; Brad Schneider, US House of Representatives (Illinois). 

STRENGTHENING CYBER PARTNERSHIPS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC. 7/21, 9:00-10:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for a New American Security. Speakers: Dr. Duyeon Kim, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security; Mihoko Matsubara, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, NTT Corporation; Dr. Teng Wei-Chung, Professor and Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology; Dr. Sherwin Ona, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Developmental Studies, De La Salle University; Moderator: Vivek Chilukuri, Senior Fellow and Program Director, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security. 

TOKYO AS A WINDOW FOR GLOBAL JAPAN: A CONVERSATION WITH GOVERNOR YURIKO KOIKE. 7/21, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Yuriko Koike, Governor, Tokyo; Kenneth R. Weinstein, Japan Chair. 

REPORT ROLLOUT: MESH SENSING FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE. 7/21, 11:00-11:45am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Missile Defense Project, CSIS. Speakers: Tom Karako, Director, Missile Defense Project and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department, CSIS; Masao Dahlgren, Fellow, Missile Defense Project, CSIS.

POLICY INNOVATION FROM TOKYO TO THE WORLD. 7/21, 3:00-4:30pm, IN PERSON ONLY, 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Room 426, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Speaker: Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. 

CORONAVIRUS AND NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS: REGIME RESPONSES AND FUTURE INSTABILITY SCENARIOS. 7/21, 3:00-4:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK). Speakers: Robert Collins, Author, Coronavirus and North Korean Human Rights; Col. David Maxwell, Board Member, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK); Jaewoo Park, Journalist, Radio Free Asia (RFA); Moderator: Greg Scarlatoiu, President & CEO, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK). 

THE JAPANESE HOUSE OF COUNCILLORS. 7/22, 10:00-11:00am (JST), 7/21, 9:00-10:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Speaker: Michael Cucek, Faculty Advisor for Asian Studies and an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus. 

PRESS CONFERENCE: KIM IJUNG, KOREAN RESIDENTS UNION IN JAPAN (MINDAN). 7/22, 11:00am-Noon (JST), 7/21, 10:00-11:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Speakers: Kim Ijung, President, Central Head Office, Korean Residents Union, Japan