Southeast Asia
Reports
2022
May
18
Past Event
South Korea’s role in the Indo-Pacific: Opportunities and challenges under the Yoon administration
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Online Only
2021
Jul
22
Past Event
The quagmire in Myanmar: How should the international community respond?
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Online Only
2020
Dec
17
Past Event
The future of Asia: Charting a roadmap for US engagement and leadership
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Online Only
Syaru Shirley Lin
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies
Thomas Pepinsky
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies
Jonathan Stromseth
Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asian Studies
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
The fact that Biden has kept engaged in diplomatic outreach with Asia, hosted the ASEAN summit and will visit South Korea and Japan and have the Quad leaders summit shows that the focus on the Indo-Pacific will remain.
The most valuable commodity in Washington is the president’s time, the more the administration demonstrates capacity to marshal tangible support for meeting the region’s key economic, health, and climate priorities, the more influence the U.S. will gain in the [Indo-Pacific] region.
