China’s power politics and maritime expansionism

With:

 

Shirley Kan,  Specialist in Asian Security Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC

China and international norms: weapons nonproliferation and maritime disputes

Taeho Kim, Professor of International Relations, director, Center for Contemporary China Studies and Hallym Institute for Taiwan Studies, Hallym University, Korea

China’s growing martime and naval interests: strategic implications for East Asian and Korean security

 

Valérie Niquet, Senior Fellow, head of Asia studies, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Paris

Can the conflict be avoided? Risks of escalation and crisis management: recent initiatives and their limits

 

Shinji Yamaguchi, Research Fellow in the Regional Studies Department of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense, Tokyo, Japan

Xi Jinping’s foreign policy and Japan-China Relations

Andrew N.D. Yang, Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Taiwan’s views on the South China Sea’s tension

 

Chair and discussant: Guibourg Delamotte, associate professor, Japanese Studies Department, INALCO & associate fellow, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris