Monday Asia Events September 9, 2024

FUTURE SECURITY FORUM 2024: GLOBAL SECURITY IN THE NEXT DECADE. 9/9-10, HYBRID. Sponsors: Arizona State University, New America, Security, and Defence PLuS. Speakers Include: Adm. Christopher W. Grady, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; LTG (ret.) H.R. McMaster, fmr. National Security Adviser, Author, At War with Ourselves, Distinguished University Fellow, ASU; Major General Borys Kremenetskyi, Defense Attaché, Ukrainian Embassy, US; Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College, Author, Command and The Future of War: A History; Evelyn Farkas, Executive Director, The McCain Institute, ASU, fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia; Vice Admiral Ann Rondeau (US Navy, Ret.), President, Naval Postgraduate School; Elizabeth Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. State Department; Roger Carstens, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, U.S. State Department; Sir Simon Gass, Senior Advisor to SC Strategy, fmr. British diplomat, Chair, UK Joint Intelligence Committee; Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, fmr. Director of Policy Planning, State Department. 

REACHING NET ZERO: THE POWER OF ALIGNING NDCS WITH LONG-TERM STRATEGIES. 9/9, 8:00-9:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: World Resources Institute. : Aloisio Lopes P. de Melo, Director of Climate Policy, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil; Anna Amalia, Associate Planner, Directorate of Environmental Affairs, Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia; Jongikhaya Witi, Chief Director, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa; Rachel Harris, Branch Head, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 

INSIGHTS FROM OKINAWA: GOVERNOR DENNY TAMAKI ON BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE US-JAPAN RELATIONSHIP. 9/9, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speaker: Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki. 

VOICES FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE. 9/9, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Aida Touma-Sliman, Member of the Knesset; Nadav Weiman, Executive Director, Breaking the Silence; Dahlia Scheindlin, Political Strategist and Public Opinion Researcher. 

THE ROLE OF CHINA IN AFRICA'S JUST ENERGY TRANSITION. 9/9, 10:00-11:15am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, Program Officer, Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy; 2021 Goldman Prize Winner; Samantha Atukunda Kakuru Mwesigwa, Executive Director and Legal Counsel, Greenwatch, Uganda; Emmanuella Doreen Kwofie, Lawyer, Green Climate Fund, Climate Negotiator; Mazi Choshane, Attorney, Centre for Applied Legal Studies. 

EXPOSING CHINA'S COMPLICITY IN AMERICA'S FENTANYL CRISIS. 9/9, 10:30-11:45am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Heritage Foundation. Speakers: Carrie Filipetti, Executive Director, and The Vandenberg Coalition, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Andrés Martínez-Fernández, Senior Policy Analyst, Allison Center for National Security; The Hon. Steve Yates, Senior Fellow and Chair, China Policy Initiative.

MANAGING U.S.-CHINA TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION IN AN ERA OF RISING TENSIONS. 9/9, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for American Progress (CAP). Speakers: Adam Conner, CAP Vice President for Technology Policy; Emily Kilcrease, Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program. 

ACCELERATING INNOVATION FOR CLIMATE AND PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS. 9/9, 11:00am-1:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for Global Development (CGD). Speakers: Major General (Ret.) Dr. Paul Friedrichs, Director, Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response, The White House; Rachel Glennerster, Incoming President, CGD; Dr. Javier Guzman, Director, Global Health Policy Program and Senior Policy Fellow, CGD; Dr. Charles Kenny, Senior Fellow, CGD; Michael Kremer, Economics Nobel Laureate, 2019, University Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; Dr. Stephanie Psaki, U.S. Coordinator for Global Health Security, The White House; Nan Ransohoff, Head of Climate, Stripe; Christopher Snyder, Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics, Dartmouth. 

THE STRUGGLE FOR TAIWAN: A HISTORY OF AMERICA, CHINA, AND THE ISLAND CAUGHT BETWEEN. 9/9, 4:00-5:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Sulmaan Khan, Denison Chair, International History and Chinese Foreign Relations, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Shihoko Goto, Director, Indo-Pacific Program; Hsiao-ting Lin, Research Fellow, Curator of East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. 

THE EU-US PERCEPTION OF THE RISE OF CHINA AND TAIWAN'S RESILIENCE. 9/9, 4:00-5:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Speakers: Hung-dah Su, Professor and Jean Monnet, Chair of Department, Political Science at National Taiwan University, Director General of the European Union Centre in Taiwan. 

CLIMATE CHANGE AS A THREAT MULTIPLIER: IMPLICATIONS FOR US DEFENSE AND GLOBAL SECURITY. 9/9, 4:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speaker: Sherri Goodman, Secretary General, International Military Council on Climate and Security. 

CAMPBELL AND OTHERS ON HOW TO GOVERN A WARMING PLANET. 9/9, 5:00-6:00pm (BST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Chatham House. Speakers: Ana Yang, Executive Director, Sustainability Accelerator, Environment and Society Centre; Rt Hon Kim Campbell, Former Prime Minister of Canada; Pascal Lamy, Former Director General of the World Trade Organization.