Launched in 2008, Engaging Asia is a half-day conference NBR convenes on Capitol Hill featuring members of Congress, embassy representatives, and other policy experts who discuss the role of Congress in shaping U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific region.
The discussion will be followed by hors d'oeuvres and a cocktail reception. This event is on the record.
For a primer on key Congressional issues to be discussed, see NBR publication, Key U.S. Policy Issues in the Indo-Pacific for the 116th Congress.
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Agenda
2:00 – 2:10 p.m. Registration
2:10 – 2:15 p.m. Welcome
Dan Aum, Director, Washington D.C. Office, The National Bureau of Asian Research
2:15 – 2:50 p.m. Keynote Remarks: Views from Congress
- The Honorable Congressman Rick Larsen (D-WA), Member, House Armed Services Committee, Co-Chair, U.S.-China Working Group
- The Honorable Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL), Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, House Foreign Affairs Committee
2:50 – 3:50 p.m. Expert Panel: Geopolitics, Trade, ASEAN, Human Rights: Developing a Holistic Policy for the Indo-Pacific
- Frank Jannuzi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mansfield Foundation
- Walter Lohman, Director of the Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation
- Lindsey Ford, irector of Political-Security Affairs, Richard Holbrooke, Fellow, Deputy Director of the Washington D.C. office, Asia Society Policy Institute
- Catharin Dalpino, Professor Emeritus, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- Moderated by: Dan Aum, Director, Washington D.C. Office, The National Bureau of Asian Research
3:50 – 4:00 p.m. Coffee break
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Embassy Panel: Views from the Region
- TBA
- Moderated by: Roy Kamphausen, Senior Vice President for Research, The National Bureau of Asian Research
This event is made possible in part by the generous support of the Chevron, Korea Foundation, and Pragmatics, Inc.