As usual, I’d be happy to give extra credit to students who attend this talk and write a short essay relating it to course themes. The essay must be uploaded by Monday 10/31 at 5pm.

Friday, October 28th at 3:15 pm:
Qiubin Wang
Associate Professor
Jilin University
"China, U.S. and East Asian Integration"
125 Minor Hall

As the largest and most influential country in the region, China has long promoted East Asian integration, and is arguably the most important internal factor for it. Similarly, but as a geographically non-East Asian country, the U.S. has extensive interest and tremendous influence in East Asia; this can be said to be the most important external factor in integration. Both the U.S. and China are indispensable to integration, and have large influence on its progress. With the U.S. joining East Asia Summit, these two powers will have more opportunities to discuss the issue. What are the concerns, points of agreement and disagreement concerning EA integration? What should be done to promote EA integration?