This conference will examine Asian integration and efforts to create or strengthen regional economic, political, and security institutions. Will East Asian countries be able to build on largely bilateral trade and financial negotiations to construct regional political and security institutions? How will they reconcile or meld the overlapping activities of APEC and the ASEAN + 3 processes? What is the role of China in the pursuit of East Asian integration—leading, shaping, or merely reacting? Finally, what do the new integration efforts and plans portend for the United States’ long-standing leadership role in the region?

AEI, the National Defense University, and the National Bureau of Asian Research are co-sponsoring this event. For information on previous China in Asia events, visit http://www.aei.org/events/seriesID.15/series_detail.asp.