This 1.5-hour seminar provided an estimate of the durability of the rebalance policy and the extent of President Obama’s legacy in the region as well as an updated assessment on the future of TPP.
REGIONAL STRATEGIC & POLITICAL PROGRAMME SEMINAR
U.S. Asia Policy: Whither the Rebalancing?
ISEAS Senior Fellow, Dr Tang Siew Mun, introducing the speaker, Dr Patrick M. Cronin to the audience (Source: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute)
Thursday, 01 September 2016 – Dr Patrick M. Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington DC, gave a seminar at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on “U.S. Asia Policy: Whiter the Rebalancing?”
Dr Cronin providing an estimate of the durability of the rebalance policy and the extent of President Obama’s legacy in the region (Source: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute)
The seminar examined the likely outcome of the US presidential election and its implications for America’s Asia Policy; the continuity and discontinuity in U.S. Asia Policy and the next Administration in 2017; and the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
Participants at the seminar (Source: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute)
More than 40 people attended the seminar.