Monday Asia Policy Events, April 28, 2025

CHINA IN THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER ASSAD. 4/28, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Policy Research Institute. Speakers: Jesse Marks, Senior Advocate, Middle East, Refugees International; Yun Sun, Senior Fellow, Co-Director, East Asia Program, Director, China Program, Stimson Center; Tingyi Wang, Research Fellow, Member, Research Committee, Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy; Aaron Glasserman, Non-Resident Fellow, Asia Program, FPRI, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania. 

OUTLOOK FOR US-JAPAN RELATIONS: PERSPECTIVES FROM JAPANESE LEGISLATORS. 4/28, 10:00-11:30am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Itsunori Onodera, LDP Member, House of Representatives, fmr. Minister of Defense; Shinjiro Koizumi, LDP Member, House of Representatives, fmr. Minister of the Environment. 

MULTIPOLARITY, CIVILIZATIONS AND UNIVERSALITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW.  4/28, 2:00-3:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: New York University School of Law. Speaker: Malcolm Jorgensen, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. 

DOMESTIC POLITICS, THE US-JAPAN ALLIANCE, AND TOKYO’S GLOBAL ROLE: BIPARTISAN VIEWS FROM THE DIET. 4/28, 2:30-3:45pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Itsunori Onodera, LDP Member, House of Representatives; Shinijiro Koizumi, LDP Member, House of Representatives; Kimi Onoda, LDP Member, House of Representatives; Koichiro Gemba, CDP Member, House of Representatives. 

CUTTING DEEP ABROAD AND AT HOME: SLASHING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE CAUSES WORLDWIDE HARM. 4/28, 1:00-2:00pm (PDT), 4:00-5:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for American Progress. Speakers: Jeremy Konyndyk, President, Refugees International; Jordan Schermerhorn, Researcher, former USAID Program Analyst; Chloe Schwenke, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. 

FROM TAIWAN SUBJECTS TO OVERSEAS TAIWANESE TO TAIWAN PROVINCIALS: BEING TAIWANESE IN EARLY POST-WAR JAPAN. 4/28, 4:30-6:00am (EDT), 5:30-7:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Sophia University, Japan. Speaker: Evan Dawley, Associate Professor, History, Goucher College.