East-West Center Special Asian Security Luncheon Seminar

Where: East-West Center in Washington, 1819 L St. NW, 2nd Floor Conference Room
When: May 30, 2008, 12:30-2:30PM
Who: Yoshihisa Komori, Editor-at-Large, The Sankei Shimbun; Robert Sutter, Professor, Georgetown University; Ming Wan, Professor, George Mason University

This event is free and open to the public.
A light lunch will be served at 12:30pm.

The China-Japan-U.S. trilateral relationship remains one of the most complex and significant in the post-Cold War era. While U.S.-Japan political and military cooperation remains strong, Japan's slowed economy, alongside China's continued growth, has brought China and Japan closer economically. The recent meeting between PRC President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda hinted at the possibility of warming relations between China and Japan that have been evolving since the departure of Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi, even if the summit failed to address more substantive issues such as historical territorial disputes over the East China Sea.