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...

Two competing paths to East Asian integration are emerging: one, symbolized by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), is a broad trans-Pacific vision; the other, more recent and still amorphous, is exclusive to East Asia itself, and symbolized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Three process and negotiations....

Afree trade agreement with Taiwan would advance American interests and give Taiwan an opportunity to thrive and compete in an increasingly integrated East Asian region.

Afree trade agreement with Taiwan would advance American interests and give Taiwan an opportunity to thrive and compete in an increasingly integrated East Asian region.

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

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.

The United States needs to look for ways to maximize its influence in the Asia-Pacific region through region-wide forums and institutional arrangements, especially given the rise of a still-autocratic China.

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.