Asia Monday and Tuesday Events, Thanksgiving Week

This is a holiday week in Washington. But it will be a busy one of self-promotion and disappointment. Below are events taking place Monday and Tuesday.

REBUILDING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: ROLE OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. 11/23, 9:00am (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: PIIE. Speakers: Stanley Fischer, Federal Reserve Chair; Anna Gelpern, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision; David Wilcox, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Economic and Monetary Affairs.

ACCORDING TO SHAKESPEARE, “EVERY CLOUD ENGENDERS NOT A STORM.” 11/23, 10:30am-Noon (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsors: World Wide Web Foundation; Internet Society; Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub; George Washington University. Speakers: Trey Herr, Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council; Josephine Wolff, Assistant Professor, Cybersecurity Policy, Tufts University; Chelsea J. Smethurst, Senior Security Strategy, Cybersecurity Strategy, Microsoft. Moderator: Costis Toregas, Director, Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute, George Washington.

TRADE POLICY DISCUSSION WITH CONGRESSMAN JIMMY PANETTA (D-CA). 11/23, 2:00-2:45pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Washington International Trade Association. Speaker: Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Member, House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee.

A CONVERSATION WITH AFSOC COMMANDER LT. GEN. JIM SLIFE. 11/23, 2:30-3:30pm (EST), event recorded on 11/18, ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Lieutenant General James C. "Jim" Slife, Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command. Moderator: Seth G. Jones, Harold Brown Chair; Director, Transnational Threats Project; and Senior Adviser, International Security Program. 

RULING THE SAVAGE PERIPHERY: FRONTIER GOVERNANCE AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN STATE. 11/23, 4:00–5:30pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsors: History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center; Asia Program, Wilson Center. Speakers: Author, Benjamin Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, GWU; Elisabeth Leake, Associate Professor of International History, University of Leeds; Benjamin H. Johnson, Professor, History Department and School of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University Chicago. Moderators: Christian F. Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center; Eric Arnesen, Professor of History, GWU. PURCHASE BOOK

WHAT AWAITS THE U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP? 11/24, 8:00-9:00am (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speaker: Hon. Nobukatsu Kanehara, Former Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary. 

BIG TECH COMPANIES IN CHINESE FINANCE. 11/24, 8:30-9:30am (EST), VIRTUAL EVENT. Sponsor: PIIE. Speakers: Huang Yiping, Professor of Economics, National School of Development at Peking University; Martin Chorzempa, PIIE Research Fellow. Moderator: Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE).

SOUTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES, FUTURE AND VISION OF THE ALLIANCE. 11/24, 9:00-10:30am (EST), ONLINE SEMINAR. Sponsor: East Asia Institute. Speakers: Patrick M. Cronin, Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute; Scott A. Snyder, Senior Fellow, Korea Studies, Director of Program on US-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Sang Hyun Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Sejong Institute. Moderator: Chaesung Chun, Chair, National Security Research Center, EAI, Professor, Seoul University. 

THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA’S ‘FOREVER WARS’. 11/24, 1:00-2:15pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsors: Brookings Institution and Charles Koch Institute. Speakers: Madiha Afzal, David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy; Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology; Christopher Preble, Co-Director, New American Engagement Initiative, Atlantic Council; Justin Logan, Director of Programs and Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Statesmanship, Catholic University of America. Moderator: Michael E. O’Hanlon, Director of Research, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology. 

"ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS” IN HONG KONG IS DEAD: DEBATE. 11/24, 9:00-10:15am (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Regina Ip, Legislator and Member of Hong Kong’s Executive Council; Daniel Russel, Vice President, International Security and Diplomacy, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). 

ADVANCING US-VIETNAM COOPERATION IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. 11/24, 10:00pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Pacific Forum. Speakers: Trang Pham Ngoc Minh, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City; Alexander Vuving, Professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. 

RELIGION AND NATIONALISM: CHINA. 11/24, 3:00-4:00pm (EST), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Georgetown University's Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues and its Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Speaker: Mayfair Yang, professor of religious studies and East Asian languages and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

THE 2020 INNER MONGOLIA LANGUAGE PROTESTS: WIDER MEANINGS FOR CHINA AND THE REGION. 11/24, 3:00-4.00pm (GMT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Chatham House. Speakers: Christopher P. Atwood, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania; Eva Pils, Professor of Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London; Uradyn E. Bulag, Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge; Kerry Brown, Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House.

Tuesday in Washington, February 21, 2017

Monday is a National Holiday in the United States


THE BATTLE FOR SYRIA: INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY IN THE NEW MIDDLE EAST. 2/21, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Project on Middle East Political Science, Elliott School, GWU. Speaker: Author Christopher Phillips, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London.

A WORLD IN DISARRAY: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER. 2/21, Noon-1:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Aspen Institute. Speaker: Author Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations; Moderator: Walter Isaacson, President, CEO, Aspen Institute.

GRAND STRATEGY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP. 2/21, Noon-1:45pm. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Author Eliot Cohen, The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, SAIS, Former counselor, Department of State; Charles Edel, Professor, Naval War college, former International Affairs Fellow, Department of State; Hal Brands, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs, SAIS. Moderator: Walter Russell Mead, Distinguished Scholar in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute. Location: Hudson Institute, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 400. Contact: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grand-strategy-in-the-age-of-trump-registration-31882287781 PURCHASE BOOK: http://amzn.to/2kXBn79

DEFENSE PRIORITIES FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. 2/21, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Robert Hale, Fellow, Booz Allen Hamilton; Lt. Gen. Mike Moeller (Ret.), Vice President, Business Development and International Programs, Pratt and Whitney; Thomas Wright, Director, Project on International Order and Strategy, Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the US and Europe, Project on International Order and Strategy; Moderator: Michael E. O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Co-Director, Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Director of Research, Foreign Policy.

TAMING THE IMPERIAL IMAGINATION: HOW THE BRITISH EMPIRE CAME TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN, AND WHY IT MATTERS. 2/21, 12:30-1:45pm. Sponsor: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School, George Washington University. Speaker: Martin Bayly, Research Officer, Postdoctoral Fellow, British Academy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

A NEW WAY FORWARD IN AFGHANISTAN: HOW THE UNITED STATES SHOULD MODIFY ITS STRATEGY. 2/21, 2:00-3:30pm. Sponsor: Center for New American Security (CNAS). Speakers: Christopher D. Kolenda, Adjunct Senior Fellow, CNAS; Ambassador Ronald Neumannm President, American Academy of Diplomacy; Ambassador James Cunningham, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Michèle Flournoy, Chief Executive Officer, CNAS.

THE BATTLE FOR SYRIA: REGIONAL RIVALRY IN THE POST-AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST. 2/21, 2:30-4:00pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. Speaker: Author Christopher Phillips, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London.

HOW TO THINK ABOUT JAPAN’S TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY. 2/21, 2:30-4:00pm. Sponsor: CSIS Japan Chair and the Government of Japan. Speakers: William Inboden, Executive Director, William Powers, Jr. Chair, Clements Center for National Security, University of Texas, Austin; Diana Kim, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Daqing Yang, Associate Professor, Elliott School, GWU; Moderator: Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia, Japan Chair, CSIS.

IN THE NEWS: TRUMP, RUSSIA, & NATIONAL SECURITY. 2/21, 3:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: Mortara Center for International Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Speakers: Colin Kahl, Associate Professor, Security Studies Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Former Deputy Assistant to the President, Former National Security Advisor to the Vice President; Paul Pillar, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center for Security Studies.

THE LONG DÉTENTE: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE, 1950s-1980s. 2/21, 3:30-5:00pm. Sponsor: History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson Center. Speakers: Editor Oliver Bange, Senior Historian, Center for Military History and Social Science; Editor Paul Villaumen, Professor, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen; Amb. James E. Goodby, Former Ambassador to Finland, Research Fellow, Hoover Institute; Moderator: Christian Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program, WWC.