After less than two months in office, the Biden administration has embarked on a flurry of diplomacy toward the Indo-Pacific. Following the publication of its Interim National Security Strategic Guidance on March 3, the President convened the first-ever summit of leaders from the Quad: Japan, South Korea, India, and the United States. In the coming week, the Secretaries of State and Defense will take their first international trips to will meet in person with their counterparts in Tokyo and Seoul. Afterward, Secretary of Defense Austin will fly to India while Secretary of State Blinken will join National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Alaska to meet with their Chinese counterparts. The Wilson Center’s Asia Program and Kissinger Institute on China and the United States will review of these meetings and analyses of what’s to come in the Indo-Pacific in 2021 and beyond.
Speakers
J. Stapleton Roy, Distinguished Fellow; Founding Director Emeritus, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
Abraham Denmark, Director, Asia Program
Robert Daly, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
Shihoko Goto, Deputy Director for Geoeconomics and Senior Associate for Northeast Asia, Asia Program
Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia
Jean H. Lee, Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy; Journalist and former Pyongyang Bureau Chief, Associated Press
Charles Edel, Global Fellow; Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney
Rui Zhong, Program Associate