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from the Government Accountability Office gave an overview of the historical context for the current U.S. military presence in Japan and South Korea and highlight current U.S. government and expert views on the benefits of these bases to U.S. national security, as well as provide some detailed data on the costs of the U.S. presence.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Diana Maurer is a Director in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Defense Capabilities and Management team, where she currently leads GAO’s work overseeing defense sustainment and readiness issues. Her recent work includes reviews of F-35 sustainment, conditions and workforce at military depots, and the mission capability of military aviation. She has testified more than two dozen times before Congressional committees on a variety of issues including the F-35, Navy ship maintenance, federal prisons, national drug control policy, the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology, and several DHS management issues
Dr. Satu P. Limaye (
Moderator)
Director, East-West Center in Washington
Within the past six months, the United States and Japan have both elected new leaders and now must address questions of where the alliance stands and where it is headed. The East-West Center in Washington, in partnership with
Tokyo Review, held an in-depth discussion with authors from the latest
Asia Pacific Bulletin series to explore the possibilities for continuing and creating new pathways of cooperation between the United States and Japan under the Biden and Suga administrations.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Sean Connell is a senior fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and a former visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Washington. Previously, he was director for Japan and Korea, and executive director of the US-Korea Business Council, at the United States Chamber of Commerce. He was a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi Fellow based at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Ind
During this program, the East-West Center released the Report from the
Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers. This webinar featured discussions with U.S. government officials and Southeast Asian ambassadors on the report, which details the findings of the October 2020 Conference that convened partners and stakeholders from across the Indo-Pacific region to share best practices and lessons learned related to the cooperative development and management of transboundary rivers. The engaging and constructive discussion with leading experts, institutions, and opinion leaders drew lessons from experiences of other partners beyond the Indo-Pacific, including from the European Union, to address rising environmental, economic, development, and political challenges in the Mekong River Basin.
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