Speakers: Ms. Natalie Lichtenstein, Dr. Shirley Yu, Prof. Kerry Brown
Moderator: Dr. Shuxiu Zhang
– What is unique about the AIIB compared to other MDBs, including the ADB?
– What are the Chinese strategic approaches to its establishment of the AIIB, and how the bank would disrupt the order of global development finance?
– What are the prospects of the internationalisation of Renminbi through AIIB?
– What were the factors that affected Korea’s position during the eight months of reviewing its interest and stake in AIIB?
– Can South Korea’s New Economic Map be enhanced by China’s BRI, and vice versa?
– How should South Korea maintain an amicable relationship with both the US and China, in the context of cooperation for global development?
– What is the implication of the recent meeting between leaders of China and Japan on the prospect of a deeper cooperation between the two countries?
– AIIB and ADB: are they in a rivalry or cohabitating, complementary relationship?
– How would the AIIB and BRI affect the East Asian economy and political, diplomatic engagement with other countries in the developmental context?
– How would the AIIB and BRI shape China’s political and economic position in East Asia and the broader world?
– What roles do other countries in East Asia play in AIIB and BRI? Can they really be a win-win solution for those countries? Should Japan join in the future, how can South Korea and Japan make contributions to gain benefits from AIIB and BRI?
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Speakers: Mr. Hamish Macdonald, Dr. Axel Berkofsky, Dr. Owen Miller
Moderator: Prof. Stephan Haggard
– What are the key foreign influences?
– What are the key domestic influences?
– How would the economy of the Korean Peninsula be reshaped through the cooperation?
– To what extent the strategic alliance between the US and South Korea would affect South Korea’s engagement with North Korea?
– What would be China’s stance to the recent development in North Korea issues: Will China welcome North Korea’s changed stance and help North Korea to be incorporated in the global community, or consider the stance as a threat undermining its security?
– How would China’s treatment of North Korean defectors in its territory be changed? If so, to what extent?
– To what extent is the history of animosity holding Japan and North Korea back from the future of cooperation?
– Will the current “Japan Passing” will be continued? How the bilateral relationship between Japan and North Korea be progressed?
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– How would North Korea’s participation promote trade and integration in East Asia, for example by building railways, connecting maritime networks and enacting interregional policies on economic activities?
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Speakers: Dr. Daqing Yang, Dr. Deokhyo Choi, Mr. Andrew Levidis
Moderator: Prof. Kent Deng
– What are the territorial controversies within East Asia? What is the origin of these disputes?
– What is the legacy of Japanese militarism and colonialism in the past?
– How has the changing regional dynamics (i.e. the rise of China) made impact on the historical narratives of the past in the region?
– Can a path toward reconciliation be opened simply by clarifying historical facts? What further actions should be taken by the governments to push the path forward?
– To what extent the characteristics of history education in China, Japan,
– How is the history education in each country contributing to shaping these days’ disputes and controversies surrounding the key historical issues?
– Who is responsible for the past, and how the problem, such as the comfort women, can be resolved in the onset of a broad range of cooperation in East Asia?
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Speaker: Ms. Julie Broussard
– What are the major threats of climate change to water resources and flooding, coastal zones, agriculture, and heat waves?
– To what degree do the impacts of climate change differ in China, Japan and South Korea? What are the major problems in each country?
– How the effects of climate change in one country can radiate other neighbouring East Asian countries?
– What are the costs of climate change adaptation?
– Is cooperation in East Asia necessary to reduce the growth of carbon dioxide emissions?
– What are the main aspects of low-carbon growth strategies in Northeast Asia?
– How market-approaches to cooperation in the region differ from and the non-market approaches (corporate vs government)? How should they be utilized to take measures to counter climate change more feasible and sustainable?
– Are current environmental policies, including the intrastate and interstate policies, enough to tackle the threats of climate change in East Asia?
– If not, what policies can be potentially implemented to tackle them more efficiently?
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Speaker: Mr. Tilman Altenburg
– How was the movement regarded in East Asia in general in public discourse?
– What were the public sentiment towards the movement in each country?
– How did the movements in the East and West differ each other, in terms of scale and scope?
– What would be socioeconomic, cultural or institutional factors underlying the difference in the reverberation of the #Metoo Movement?
3. Comparison between #Metoo Movement in China, Japan and South Korea
– The movement has brought far greater attention in the media in South Korea compared to that in China and Japan: why did the movement face more challenges in Japan and China as compared to in South Korea?
– The movement has brought far greater attention in the media in South Korea compared to that in China and Japan: why did the movement face more challenges in Japan and China as compared to in South Korea?
– How will the movement progress in the future? Can the movement facilitate social changes
– What measures have been introduced, both in the private and public sector, as a response to the movement? What further actions can be taken in the future?