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.

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

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.

A Statesmen’s Forum with

General Xu Caihou
Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China’s Central Military Commission

Introduction by
John Hamre
President and CEO, CSIS

Laurence J. Brahm, author of “The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club: Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution”, discussed China's rise as a global power and the future of U.S.-China relations.

Discussant: Douglas Paal, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

CSIS hosted a press briefing on the upcoming UN General Assembly and the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh.

Briefers include: