Asia

At this meeting, we will review developments in the WMD disarmament and nonproliferation regimes since we last met, and focus on further development of the CSCAP Action Plan for Countering the Proliferation of WMD in the Asia Pacific.

Michael Buehler, of Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, will discuss the recent controversy surrounding Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), including the indictment of its former chair for murder, the charges of corruption lodged (perhaps for political purposes) against its deputy chairmen, and the position of President Yudhoyono on the charges and

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism hosted a session of:

The CSIS-Schieffer Series Dialogues
Presented by United Technologies Corporation (UTC)

A Discussion of North Korea

The 7th CSCAP General Conference titled New Challenges to Asia-Pacific Security will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 16-18 November 2009. 

Ambassador Sung Kim, Special Envoy for the Six Party Talks, discussed the latest developments in attempts to bring North Korea back to the multilateral negotiation process. 

Introduction to the report: Is China Ready to Challenge the Dollar?  Internationalization of the Renminbi and Its Implications for the United States

Introduction

Melissa E. Murphy, Fellow, CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies

Discussant

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) hosted a press briefing on President Obama’s upcoming trip to Asia and the APEC Summit.

Briefers include:

This event builds upon a series of similar high-level discussions that have been conducted in Beijing since 2002, and will again involve senior experts and both current and former officials from the U.S. and China in an off-the-record, informal dialogue aimed at improving mutual understanding on nuclear weapons-related issues. The U.S.