Page 1 of 6 4th KIC-EAI Conference on New Biden Era and East Asia: Regional Cooperation amid Turbulence in East Asia Jointly organised by East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore (NUS) College of International Studies (KIC), Kyung Hee University (KHU), Republic of Korea Friday, 9 April 2021 9.00 am to 4.15 pm (Singapore Time) Via Zoom This conference examines the major challenges of the East Asian regional order after the inauguration of new Biden administration including the uncertain great power transition, the decoupling of trade, technology, finance and human talent between the US and China, and nuclearization in the Korean peninsula. However, there are areas of cooperation in East Asia such as the adoption of carbon neutral policies, RCEP and measures against the covid-19 pandemic. What does the inauguration of the Biden Administration augur for East Asia? The organizers seek to enhance academic collaboration between the scholars of South Korea and Singapore with the 4 th edition of the annual KIC-EAI Conference. ~ Programme ~ As at 8 March 9.00 – 9.10 am Welcome Remarks Singapore Time Prof Bert Hofman Director, East Asian Institute, NUS 9.10 – 9.20 am Congratulatory Remarks Professor Kim Jun Yeup Dean, College of International Studies, KHU 9.20 – 9.40 am Keynote Speech H E Ambassador Ahn Young-jip Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Singapore 9.45 – 11.15 am Session 1 - Regional Cooperation: Economics & Pandemics Moderated by Prof Bert Hofman, Director, East Asian Institute, NUS 1. Reviving the Momentum of Multilateralism in East Asia: South Korea’s Policy under Biden Administration Prof Moon Don, College of International Studies, KHU 2. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP): Whither Regional Integration? Dr Sarah Tong, Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS 3. Mitigating COVID-19 and “Vaccine Multilateralism” Dr Ryan Clarke, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS Discussants: Dr Yang Chun Hee, College of International Studies, KHU Dr Sarah Chan, Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS Q & A
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4th KIC-EAI Conference on
New Biden Era and East Asia:
Regional Cooperation amid Turbulence in East Asia
Jointly organised by
East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore (NUS)
College of International Studies (KIC), Kyung Hee University (KHU), Republic of Korea
Friday, 9 April 2021 9.00 am to 4.15 pm (Singapore Time)
Via Zoom
This conference examines the major challenges of the East Asian regional order after the inauguration of new Biden administration including the uncertain great power transition, the decoupling of trade, technology, finance and human talent between the US and China, and nuclearization in the Korean peninsula. However, there are areas of cooperation in East Asia such as the adoption of carbon neutral policies, RCEP and measures against the covid-19 pandemic. What does the inauguration of the Biden Administration augur for East Asia? The organizers seek to enhance academic collaboration between the scholars of South Korea and Singapore with the 4th edition of the annual KIC-EAI Conference.
~ Programme ~ As at 8 March
9.00 – 9.10 am Welcome Remarks Singapore Time Prof Bert Hofman Director, East Asian Institute, NUS
9.10 – 9.20 am Congratulatory Remarks Professor Kim Jun Yeup Dean, College of International Studies, KHU
9.20 – 9.40 am Keynote Speech H E Ambassador Ahn Young-jip Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Singapore
9.45 – 11.15 am Session 1 - Regional Cooperation: Economics & Pandemics Moderated by Prof Bert Hofman, Director, East Asian Institute, NUS
1. Reviving the Momentum of Multilateralism in East Asia: South Korea’s Policy under Biden Administration Prof Moon Don, College of International Studies, KHU
2. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP): Whither Regional Integration? Dr Sarah Tong, Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
3. Mitigating COVID-19 and “Vaccine Multilateralism” Dr Ryan Clarke, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
Discussants: Dr Yang Chun Hee, College of International Studies, KHU Dr Sarah Chan, Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
Q & A
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1.00 – 2.30 pm Session 2 - Regional Cooperation amid Strategic Challenges (I) Moderated by Prof Kim Jun Yeup, College of International Studies, KHU
4. Prospects for Sino-US Strategic Rivalry under Biden Administration and South Korea’s Strategic Options Prof Park Hahnkyu & Prof Yang Chun Hee, College of International Studies, KHU
5. US, China and the North Korean Conundrum after the Singapore and Hanoi Summits Dr Li Nan, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
6. US Grand Strategy towards East Asia: From Trump to Biden Dr Lance Gore, Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
Discussants: Prof Kim Sunil, College of International Studies, KHU Dr Lam Peng Er, Principal Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
Q & A
2.30 – 4.00 pm Session 3 - Regional Cooperation amid Strategic Challenges (II) Moderated by Prof Park Hahnkyu, College of International Studies, KHU
7. Old Wine in a Not-so-new Bottle --- The Potential (Non)changes of Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia under the New Regimes Prof Kim Sunil, College of International Studies, KHU
8. Republic of Korea’s New Southern Policy amid Growing US-China Rivalry Dr Chiang Min-Hua, Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
9. Regional Cooperation and Carbon Neutrality to Mitigate Climate Change Dr Chen Gang, Senior Research Fellow & Assistant Director (Policy Research), East Asian Institute, NUS
Discussants: Prof Moon Don, College of International Studies, KHU Dr Yu Hong, Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
Q & A
4.00 – 4.15 pm Closing Remarks Prof Kim Jun Yeup, College of International Studies, KHU Prof Bert Hofman, Director, East Asian Institute, NUS
End of Conference
Registration prior to the conference is required – for all attendees including speakers and moderators.
and Economic Restructure (2014), China’s Great Urbanization (2017), China’s Economic Transformation under the
New Normal (2017), China’s Economic Modernization and Structural Changes (2019), and China and Asia
Economic Integration (2020).
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Ryan Clarke is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His
career has spanned defence and intelligence technology, investment banking, biodefence, strategic R&D, strategic
assessments and emergency response.
Yang Chun Hee graduated from Brown University in 1988 majoring in International Relations and Economics. He
obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University from 1988 to 1994, majoring in Political Science
(International Relations). He has been appointed as Professor at Kyung Hee College of International Studies since
1997. While most of Prof Yang’s publications are in Korean, his English publications include “The Pacific War
Revisited: Political Realism and the Concept of Thymos,” Korea Observer, Summer 1995; “The Japanese Political
Economy and Its Future: Japan Bashing and the Lessons of the Great Depression,” Pacific Focus, Vol. XII, No. 1
(Spring 1997); “Chinese Intervention in the Korean War: A Critique of Lebow’s Motivational Model,” Korea
Observer, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter 2002); “Game of Patience: Is Complete Denuclearization of North Korea Possible?”
East Asian Policy, Vol. 11, No. 3, (Jul/Sep 2019); and “Time to Forgive and Learn: A Better Future for South Korea
and Japan,” East Asian Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3, (Jul/Sep 2020). Prof Yang’s current research interests include
international peace, international culture, and new age thinking.
Sarah Chan is Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. She obtained her Ph.D.
in economics from the Nanyang Technological University. Previously she was a consultant for the Asian
Development Bank and a senior economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Her research interests include
China’s economic and financial development as well as China’s trade with East Asia. She has published in
many refereed journals, namely, Post-Communist Economies, Asian Survey, Asia Pacific Business Review, Journal
of Southeast Asian Economies, Journal of Asian Public Policy, China Economic Policy Review, among others.
Park Hahnkyu is Professor of International Studies at Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. He is formerly
the Dean at the College of International Studies and the Graduate School of Pan-Pacific International Studies in
Kyung Hee University. He has extensively published numerous books and articles both in English and Korean on the
subjects as East Asian international relations, U.S.-China relations, Korea-Japan relations, South Korea’s foreign
policies, nuclear nonproliferation in East Asia, and human security. His recent articles include “Game of Patience: Is
Complete Denuclearisation of North Korea Possible?” (2019), “Trust But Verify: Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un and
a Denuclearising North Korea after the Singapore Summit” (2018), “Trump versus Kim Jong-un: Four Scenarios of
U.S.-North Korea Relations” (2017), and “The China-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Summit: Realpolitik or Liberal
Peace?” (2017). He completed B.A. at Yonsei University, and both M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at Columbia
University in the city of New York.
Li Nan is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He has
published extensively on Chinese security and military policy and on China’s maritime development. His most recent
book, entitled Civil-Military Relations in Post-Deng China: From Symbiosis to Quasi-Institutionalization, was
published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020. He was Professor at the US Naval War College and received a Ph.D. in
political science from the Johns Hopkins University.
Lance Gore is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research
interests span a wide range of topics on China and East Asia. He has done research and published on Chinese
environmental politics (the “Green GDP” experiment), the reforms in China’s steel industry, energy sector, patterns
of entrepreneurship in mainland China, the economic bureaucracies of China, cadre performance evaluation, local
state economic behaviour, the Chinese Communist Party, industrial relations, elite politics and the People’s Liberation
Army. He taught for many years at Bowdoin College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts
University in the United States. He is the single author of three monographs: Chinese Communist Party and China’s
Capitalist Revolution: the Political Impact of Market (Routledge); Market Communism: the Institutional
Foundations of China’s Post-Mao Hyper-Growth (Oxford); and Chinese Politics Illustrated: the Cultural, Social and
Historical Contexts (World Scientific). He also published widely in international journals such as Polity, The New
Political Economy, The China Journal, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Problems of Post-Communism,
Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law etc. and also edited or co-edited several books
and contributed numerous book chapters. He is associate editor of China: An International Journal.
Kim Sunil has been teaching courses on East Asian politics and society at the College of International Studies, Kyung
Hee University. His research has mainly been focusing on democracy and social policies—civil society, labor, welfare,
and education in particular—in East Asian countries, publishing articles in Democratization, Journal of East Asian
Studies, etc. Currently, Prof Kim is working on multiple book projects on the transformation of welfare regimes in
Japan and Korea, the political-economic impact of neoliberalism in Korea, and the changing nature of state violence
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in Korea (with Jonson Porteux). Before joining Kyung Hee University, Prof Kim has been at the University of
Washington in Seattle as a research fellow and visiting lecturer. He earned his doctoral degree in political science at
the University of California, Berkeley.
Lam Peng Er is Principal Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He obtained
his PhD at Columbia University. His articles have appeared in Pacific Affairs, Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Japan
Forum, and Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics. Dr Lam’s books include
the single-authored monograph, Japan’s Peace Building Diplomacy in Asia: Searching for an Active Political
Role (Routledge, 2009) and Green Politics in Japan (Routledge, 1999), as well as edited and co-edited
volumes, Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change (Lexington Books,
2020), China-Japan Relations in the 21st Century: Antagonism Despite Interdependency (Palgrave Macmillan,
2017), Japan’s Relations with Southeast Asia: The Fukuda Doctrine and Beyond (Routledge, 2013), and Japan’s
Relations with China: Facing a Rising Power (Routledge, 2006). He is an executive editor of the International
Relations of the Asia-Pacific (a journal of the Japan Association of International Relations published by Oxford
University Press), East Asian Policy Journal (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore) and Asian
Journal of Peacebuilding (a journal of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University).
Lam is Singapore country coordinator for NEAT (Network of East Asian Think Tanks) and NACT (Network of
ASEAN China Think Tanks).
Chiang Min-Hua is Research Fellow at East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore. She obtained her
PhD in economics from Université Pierre-Mendès-France, now part of Université Grenoble Alpes, in 2008. Her
research interests include Asia-Pacific regionalism, trade and investment, and issues related to economic growth and
development in East Asia. She has published in numerous academic journals and contributed commentaries regularly
to the East Asia Forum and Taiwan Insight. She is currently editing the book Political Economy of North Korea’s
Economic Development, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder, CO, USA (forthcoming in 2022).
Chen Gang is Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University
of Singapore (NUS). After joining the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China’s politics, foreign policy,
environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively on these issues. He is the single author of Politics of
Renewable Energy in China (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019), The Politics of Disaster Management in China:
Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), China’s Climate
Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), Politics of China’s Environmental Protection: Problems and
Progress (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009) and The Kyoto Protocol and International Cooperation against Climate
Change (in Chinese) (Beijing: Xinhua Press, 2008). His research papers have appeared in internationally refereed
journals such as Asian Survey, Asia Pacific Business Review, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, The
International Spectator, The Polar Journal, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International
Politics and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He provides consultancy for the Singapore government on policy
issues in East Asia. He is frequently interviewed by media like the South China Morning Post, Channel NewsAsia
and Xinhua News Agency. Dr Chen has also formulated the “Contemporary China–Southeast Asia Relations” module
for NUS Master of Arts students and the “Public Sector Risk Management” curriculum for MPA students at the NUS
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He was a member of the Global Emerging Voices programme jointly
sponsored by The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Stiftung Mercator, Torino World Affairs Institute and
Australian National University in 2012. He has participated in various international research projects such as the
“EU-Asia Dialogue” co-funded by the European Union and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) of Germany and
the Asian Energy Programme sponsored by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Yu Hong is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research
interests cover regional economic development in China, the Belt and Road Initiatives, the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank, China’s state-owned enterprises and railway sector reform. Dr Yu’s research articles have appeared
in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Survey, Asian Studies Review,
Asia Policy, East Asia: An International Quarterly, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies and Asian Politics &
Policy. He is the single author of the monograph Economic Development and Inequality in China: the Case of
Guangdong (Routledge, London and New York: 2011). Dr Yu is the author of the book Chinese Regions in Change:
Industrial Upgrading and Regional Development Strategies (Routledge, London and New York: 2015). His most
recent book in Chinese is Belt & Road Initiative, The Rise of China and International Cooperation: What Does it
Mean to China and the Region? (World Affairs Press, Beijing: 2017). Dr Yu is the recipient of the fifth annual John
and Vivian Sabel Award for the best article publicised by the Journal of Contemporary China. Dr Yu serves as the
reviewer for a number of international journals on Asian and industrial studies. He is frequently interviewed as an
expert on China by international and local media on a range of topics.
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The College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University (KIC) was established in 1992 and has been one of leading undergraduate programs of International Studies in Korea. The main educational mission of the KIC is to educate and train future international specialists who will play a leading role in this era of globalization. To this end, KIC provides students with the necessary knowledge and perspectives required to prepare them for principal positions in international organizations, global corporations, the media, NGOs and public sector agencies. The KIC provides comprehensive inter-disciplinary curriculum related to International Relations, International Commerce, Global Business, and East Asian Studies. It also offer wide range of extra-curricular opportunities for students to gain experience on the global stage. KIC is very proud of its diverse programs for students, which include scholarships for study abroad, internships, opportunities for career development and volunteer activities. For more information, please visit http://kic.khu.ac.kr/home/.
The East Asian Institute (EAI) was set up in April 1997 as an autonomous research organization under a statute of the National University of Singapore. It is the successor of the former Institute of East Asian Political Economy (IEAPE), which was itself the successor of the Institute of East Asian Philosophies (IEAP), originally established by Dr Goh Keng Swee in 1983 for the study of Confucianism. The main mission of EAI is to promote both academic and policy-oriented research on East Asian development, particularly the political, economic and social development of contemporary China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), and China’s growing economic relations with the region and the world at large, including Japan, Korea and ASEAN. To promote academic exchange and to enable its research findings to reach out to a wider segment of the public, EAI organizes seminars and publishes research papers on a regular basis. EAI also participates in joint research projects with government ministries and statutory boards in Singapore, promotes collaborative programmes with similar institutions in the region as well as organizes regional and international conferences and workshops on East Asian issues. The long-term vision of EAI is to develop into the region’s foremost research institution on East Asian development. While its initial focus was on contemporary China, the Institute has extended its research efforts to Japan and Korea as it builds up its resources. Please visit www.eai.nus.edu.sg for more information.