Monday Asia Policy Events, March 24, 2025

COMBATTING DISINFORMATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN JAPAN AND CANADA. 3/24, 8:00-9:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Speakers: Chris Beall, Executive Director, Project Connie; Marcus Kolga, Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute; Kyoko Kuwahara, Fellow, Macdonalad-Laurier Institute. 

LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD: THE ROLE AND CHALLENGES OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN POST-ASSAD SYRIA. 3/24, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Omar Alshogre, Director of Detainees Affairs, Syrian Emergency Task Force; Federica D’Alessandra, British Academy Global Innovation Fellow, Global Order and Institutions Program; Nousha Kabawat, Head of Program, Syria, International Center for Transitional Justice; Robert Petit, UN Assistant Secretary-General; Stephen J. Rapp, Senior Fellow, International Justice, Center on National Security, Georgetown Law.  

HOW CEOS ARE NAVIGATING THE TRUMP ERA. 3/24, 11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Policy Live. Speaker: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Founder, President, Chief Executive Leadership Institute. 

RECHARGED? THE FUTURE OF EUROPE’S AUTO SECTOR AND EU-CHINA RELATIONS. 3/24, 9:00-10:45PM (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Ilaria Mazzocco, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, CSIS; Maria Martin-Prat De Abreu, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission; Max Bergmann, Director, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and Stuart Center, CSIS; Francesca Ghiretti, Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident), Wadhwani AI Center; Julia Poliscanova, Senior Director, Vehicles & Emobility Supply Chains, Brussels (EU), T&E. 

ABE MEMORIAL LECTURE: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL DIPLOMACY AND THE INDO-PACIFIC. 3/24, 9:30-11am (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Speakers: Ambassador Shigeo Yamada, Ambassador of Japan to the United States; Dr. Kurt Campbell, 22nd Deputy Secretary of The United States Department of State; Dr. Evan Medeiros (moderator), Director of Asian Studies, Penner Family Chair in Asia Studies in the School of Foreign Service. 

PUTIN'S REVENGE AND RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE. 3/24, 11:00am–Noon (EDT). VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: author Lucian Kim, Journalist.  PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3XVCR5u

FORECASTING DISASTER: HOW DOGE'S CUTS TO NOAA WILL AFFECT WEATHER AWARENESS AND WELL-BEING. 3/24, 1:00-2:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for American Progress. Speakers: Todd Carter, Chief Development Director, Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina; David Dickson, Meteorologist, Covering Climate Now. 

GLOBAL PUBLIC OPINION ON CHINA: HOW DOES THE WORLD SEE CHINA? 3/24, 3:00-4:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Asia Society. Speakers: Andrew Chubb, Fellow, Foreign Policy and National Security, Center for China Analysis, Asia Society Policy Institute; Maria Repnikova, Associate Professor, Global Communication, Georgia State University; Cindy Yu, Expert, Modern China. 

CITIZENSHIP AND MULTICULTURALISM IN EAST ASIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MARRIAGE MIGRATION IN JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND TAIWAN. 3/24, 4:00–5:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsors: Harvard University Asia Center. Speakers: Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University; Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University.