AEI’s Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies will host Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter for a timely discussion of U.S. defense budgets, of the changing strategic landscape in the U.S. and the force that this landscape demands.

At this AEI event, Taro Kono (LDP) will offer his vision for what Japan needs to win its future, followed by a panel discussion with AEI and Japanese scholars.

How will Taiwan defend itself in the coming years? What is the outlook for Taiwan’s ties with Japan, Europe and the United States? A group of experts will discuss these and other questions at this special AEI event.

This event will feature two dynamic panel discussions with respected leaders on the need to bring the US voter registration system into the 21st century to better serve all Americans.

Asia will become the epicenter of geopolitical activity in the 21st century and the budding U.S.-China security rivalry, conditioned by deep economic interdependence, will shape the region's future.

After Congress passes FTAs with Korea, Columbia and Panama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) will become the single most important US trade initiative, serving as a building block for a larger Free Trade Area for the Asia Pacific Agreement.