Please join AEI for a briefing on the TPP and the current trade agenda from 12:00 – 1:15 on Tuesday, July 30th in 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The ongoing standoff in the waters around the Diaoyutai Islands (in Japanese, Senkaku) threatens Taiwan's security, though not primarily for the obvious reason.

Michael Auslin testified before the House Armed Services Committee on July 24, 2013.

Japan's resource security concerns inform its foreign policy in important ways and provide new opportunities for increased US-Japanese cooperation. In addressing rare earth element and natural gas supply-chain vulnerabilities, Japan can develop new security relationships throughout Asia while strengthening existing ones.

Shinzo Abe's victory on Sunday in upper house elections may represent the most crucial moment for the Japanese economy in a generation.

Diplomatic jaw-jawing usually ends with little substantive accomplishment.

Although Taiwan’s potential role in the US pivot to Asia has been largely ignored, the island nation is uniquely poised to be an important partner in the security component of that effort.

What are the benefits of and obstacles to Asian integration, and what are the implications for America’s economic recovery? How will economic developments in Japan and China affect Asia’s smaller economies? What role does US economic policy play in America’s “pivot” to Asia? A group of experts will address these and other questions surrounding Asia’s economic future.

An plan to open elite military training centers in Asia could be a rare bright spot in an era of U.S. defense cuts.

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe plans to revise Japan’s constitution to allow for more regular military operations and to set up a national security council. Can Abe realize these plans, and what are the potential obstacles to his agenda? How will other regional powers react? A panel of experts will convene at AEI to answer these and other questions.