From April 3 to 4, 2014, the “Trilateral Conference on Northeast Asia and the U.S.” jointly held by the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, School of International Studies, Peking University and Brookings Institution was held in Seoul, South Korea. The dialogue was composed of two parts. The first part was a closed-door session and the second part was public speech.
On the afternoon of April 3, hosted by Park In-kook, Head of The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, Jia Qingguo from School of International Studies, Peking University and Jonathan D. Pollack, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution, experts and scholars from the three sides held private session. They conducted extensive and in-depth exchanges on the North Korean problem, the “rebalancing strategy” of the U.S. in Asia, Japanese issues, the relationship between central European situation and Asia, and the future of Asian and global economy.
At a public debate on April 4, several professors made keynote speeches, including Jia Qingguo, Zhu Feng and Wang Zhengyi from School of International Studies, Peking University, Ni Feng from Institute of American Studies, CASS, Yuan Peng from School of International Studies, and Shen Dingli from Fudan University; Jonathan D.Pollack, Kenneth Liberthal, Jeffry A. Bader, David Dollar, Robert Einhorn and Thomas Wright from Brookings Institution; Park In-kook(The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies), Moon Chung-in (Yonsei University), Jae Ho Chung (Seoul National University), Kim Tae-hyo (Sungkyunkwan Univerisity), Lee Jung-hoon (Yonsei University), Lian Zaigao (Korea University), Park Zhe-hee (Seoul National University), Choi Byung-il (Ewha Womans University), Cheong Young-rok (Seoul National University). The First Deputy Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade delivered a speech on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea (Minister Yun Byung-se was unable to deliver a speech due to temporary problems). Ambassadors from 40 countries, diplomats from more than 70 embassies in South Korea, and more than 900 people from all walks of life in South Korea and journalists from the news media attended the conference.
Scholars from three countries directly and openly debated on “China-U.S. relations: America’s Asian rebalancing strategy and a new type of great power relation”, “The challenges of peace and security in Northeast Asia: The Korean Peninsula, Japan’s dispute over maritime rights”, “The future of the economy in Northeast Asia: internationalization of RMB, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the Free Trade Area (FTAs)”. While forming a broad consensus, the scholars of the three sides also conducted in-depth exchanges of views different from each other. The public debate achieved satisfactory results, and the Korean media made in-depth reports, which have had a wide impact.
With the support of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, the conference was the first round of the trilateral dialogue between China, the U.S. and South Korea, jointly held by the School of International Studies, Peking University, The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies and Brookings Institution.In accordance with the original agreement, the second and third rounds of the trilateral dialogue between China, the U.S. and South Korea will be held in Washington and Beijing.
Link:http://www.cuppe.pku.edu.cn/jlhd/dwjl/230302.htm
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