Speaker: Zhiqun ZHU, Professor of Political Science & International Relations, Bucknell University.

Moderator: Cathryn H. Clayton (UHM), Associate Professor and Chair of Asian Studies.

Respondents:

Kristi Govella (UHM), Assistant Professor of Asian Studies.

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka (UHM), Associate Professor of Pacific Island Studies.

Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

With the release of the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022 and the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in May 2022, the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy has taken shape. The Indo-Pacific strategy aims at maintaining a free and open regional order and focuses heavily on competition with China through the so-called “12345 scheme" – One superpower, Bilateral alliances, AUKUS, QUAD, and Five Eyes.  Is the Indo-Pacific strategy inclusive or divisive for the region?  Will the Biden administration achieve its objectives outlined in the strategy?  How have regional countries responded to the strategy so far?  This presentation will critically examine the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy and discuss its implications for the region.

Speaker:

Zhiqun ZHU, Professor of Political Science & International Relations, Bucknell University.

Prof. Zhu is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including A Critical Decade: China’s Foreign Policy 2008-2018 (2019); China’s New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies and Significance (2013); and US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace (2005).

Moderator:

Cathryn H. Clayton (UHM), Associate Professor and Chair of Asian Studies/Center for Chinese Studies. A historically-minded anthropologist by training, she writes and teaches about the cultural politics of sovereignty, ethnicity and Chineseness, with a special focus on Macau.  

Respondents:

Kristi Govella (UHM), Assistant Professor of Asian Studies/Center for Japanese Studies, specializes in comparative politics and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Asian regionalism, Japanese politics, and the relationship between economics and security. 

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka (UHM), Associate Professor of Pacific Island Studies/Center for Pacific Island Studies, a political scientist with degrees from the Australian National University and the University of the South Pacific, has researched and published on China in Oceania.

Co-sponsored by the UHM Department of Asian Studies and the Centers for Japanese and Pacific Island Studies. 

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