MEGA conference week
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MEGA conference week



This is the week of the ?mega-conference? in Washington. Nearly every Asia hand will be in town in some capacity or another.

CHINA'S NAVAL MODERNIZATION:  CAUSE FOR STORM WARNINGS? 6/16, 8:25am-5:15pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University (INDU). Speakers: Adm. Douglas Crowder, USN (Ret), Former Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet; Adm. Michael McDevitt, USN (Ret), Director, CNA Strategic Studies; Dr. Bernard Cole, Aauthor, Great Wall at Sea; Dr. Nan Li, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College; Dr. Robert Ross, Professor, Boston College; Ronald O'Rourke, Congressional Research Service; Derek Mitchell, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs. 

ASIA POLICY ASSEMBLY. 6/17, 9:00am-7:00pm, 6/18, 8:30am-5:00pm,Washington, DC. Sponsors: National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC). Keynote Addresses by James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State; Wallace "Chip" Gregson, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, Department of Defense; Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-MO); Sen. James Webb (D-VA); Stanley Roth, Vice President, International Government Relations, Boeing Company. APP Members speaking: Daniel Sneider, Associate Director for Research, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; T.J. Pempel, Professor, Political Science, University of California Berkeley; Donald Emmerson, Director, Southeast Asia Forum, Shorenstein APARC; Sheldon Simon, Professor, Political Science, Arizona State University.

150 YEARS OF AMITY & 50 YEARS OF ALLIANCE. 6/17, 1:00-6:30pm, 6/18, 8:00am-7:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: CNAS, Nippon Foundation, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and the Ocean Policy Research Foundation. Keynote Address by Akihisa Nagashima, Parliamentary Vice Minister for Defense.




- The Week Ahead In Washington - Mid August
It is summer. Congress is in recess and the President is on vacation. No one should be in DC, let alone hold a policy program. Something is wrong with the people below. NAVAL AVIATION. 8/12, 9:00-10:00am. Sponsor: International Security Program, CSIS....

- Emergency Preparedness In The Asia-pacific
TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE FRAMEWORK: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC  Wednesday, October 9 9:00am-4:00pmWashington, DC  SponsorsBanyan Analytics, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation LocationCapital Hilton, 1001...

- This Week In Washington
AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS  2/6 - 9:30am, House Science, Space and Technology Committee, Full committee hearing on "American Competitiveness: The Role of Research and Development." Witnesses: Mr. Richard Templeton, President and CEO, Texas Instruments;...

- Quiet Week In Washington
Congress is in recess until April 12th TRANSPARENCY IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN CHINA. 4/1, 2:00pm. Sponsor: Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Speakers: Barbara Finamore, Founder and Director, China Program, Natural Resources...

- China Breaking
CHINA'S ECONOMY IN THE POST-CRISIS WORLD. 3/17, 10:00am-Noon, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Speakers: Douglas Paal, Vice President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Tom Byrne, Vice President and Senior...



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