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

Despite an increasingly difficult political terrain--including deep divisions between the two major parties over trade policy, as well as equally deep intra-party divisions with the Democratic Party--U.S. presidents and the U.S. executive have adopted remarkably unified goals.

Efforts at integration in Asia often fail because they overlook the role of the United States.

This AEI conference will address the importance and impact of the APEC summit, as well as long-term U.S. policy and interests in the Asia-Pacific region.

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...

AsAPEC meets later this month, the central question its leaders must confront is their response to the stalemate in the multilateral negotiations launched at Doha.