This conference will consist of back-to-back sessions in which presenters and panelists will analyze trade and investment trends in East Asia and discuss the evolution of East Asian economic institutions, including APEC, the ASEAN Plus 3 process, and the East Asian Summit. These discussions will be based upon two chapters...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the evolution of trade relations between the United States and China, against the background of rising East Asian regionalism.

Over the past two decades, the United States has increasingly balanced its prime commitment to the multilateral trading system and the GATT/WTO with supplemental negotiations for regional trade agreements and bilateral agreements with nations around the entire trading world. Under the George W. Bush administration, this multidimensional approach—“competitive liberalization,” as...

Since the 1990s, China has coordinated its economic expansion with strategic, political, and foreign policy objectives. Through bilateral trade agreements, World Trade Organization accession in 2001, greater involvement in regional institutions like the ASEAN Plus Three, and numerous soft-power initiatives, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has embarked upon what...

two recent bilateral FTAs pose immediate challenges to Taiwan firms: the EU-Korea FTA and the just completed US-Korea FTA.

If pursued skillfully, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement has the potential to reconfigure Asian trade in a way that would be beneficial to the United States and to the Asia-Pacific region.

With President Bush's meeting with Chinese president Hu Jintao truly be "friendly but forthright"?

Over the next three years, President Barack Obama and his advisers will need to set a course for the reassertion of U.S. leadership in constructing a trans-Pacific vision.