Monday Asia Events December 16, 2025

WHERE’S THE WATER: MEKONG DRY SEASON 2025? 12/16, 9:00-10:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Stimson. Speakers: Alan Basist, President, Eyes on Earth; Brian Eyler, Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program, Stimson Center; Nguyen Y Nhu, Head of Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, Vietnam National University of Science; Courtney Weatherby, Southeast Asia Deputy Director, Stimson Center (Moderator). 

WHAT DOES THE FALL OF THE ASSAD REGIME MEAN FOR SYRIA AND THE

MIDDLE EAST? 12/16, 11:00-11:45am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers:

Sanam Vakil, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House; Charles

Lister, Senior Fellow, Director, Syria, Countering Terrorism and Extremism Programs, Middle

East Institute. 

POWER PLAYS: US-TURKEY RELATIONS UNDER TRUMP. 12/16, Noon (EST),

VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Quincy. Speakers: Steven Simon, Senior Research Fellow, Quincy; Kadir

Ustin, Executive Director, SETA Foundation; Gönül Tol, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute;

Colonel Rich Outzen, Non-Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council.

MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY IN AN AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. 12/16, 2:00-3:00pm (EST). VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Hutchins Center, Brookings. Speakers: Marshall Reinsdorf, Economic consultant; Louise Sheiner, Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Policy Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings; Nicholas Muller, Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; David Byrne, Principal Economist, Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Erica Groshen, Senior Economics Advisor, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Research Fellow, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, former Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

DEPUTY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE DON GRAVES. 12/16, 2:00–2:45pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for New American Security (CNAS). Speakers: Don Graves, Deputy Secretary of Commerce; Emily Kilcrease, Senior Fellow and Director, Energy, Economic and Security Program, CNAS.

DOLLARS AND DOMINION: U.S. BANKERS AND THE MAKING OF SUPER POWER. 12/16, 4:00-5:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: author Mary Bridges, Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Harold James, Clause and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University; Marc Levinson, Economist, Historian, and Journalist.  PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4eXPWRM

TO GO NUCLEAR, OR NOT: THE KOREAN PENINSULA ISSUES AND US NATIONAL SECURITY. 12/16, 7:00-8:15pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsors: Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS). Speaker: Vipin Narang, Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science, MIT.