Susan Shirk Quoted in Reuters on ASEAN talks
Vietnam defence talks to steer clear of controversy
10/09/2010
John Ruwitch,
Reuters
Concerns over China's maritime ambitions are likely to remain muted at an Asia-Pacific defence ministers' meeting in Hanoi next week as participants steer clear of friction to nurture a potentially useful new security forum.
China, for its part, is likely to play nice at the defence meeting and a summit in Vietnam later this month in an effort to reassure its neighbours that it can be reasonable and cooperative as the dust settles from an angry territorial row with Japan
On Tuesday, defence chiefs from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will come to the table for the first time with eight partners -- the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Click here to read the full article.
Related Links
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
Similar Stories In:
