Asia-Pacific Work Group
Tuesday January 12 8 p.m. (EST)
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The newly launched Asia-Pacific Working Group will host at webinar providing background and analysis of the history and dynamics of U.S. Asia-Pacific policies.
The United States has been an imperial power across Asia and the Pacific since Admiral Perry’s Black Ships “opened” Japan, and the U.S. conquered the Philippines, Guam and Samoa and annexed Hawaii during the “Spanish-American War.” President-elect Joe Biden and Antony Blinken are repeating their commitments to reinforce U.S. Asia-Pacific alliances and to the military buildup to contain China that was begun with the Obama “pivot” to Asia and the Pacific and deepened by Trump’s ratcheting up tensions with China.
Featured speakers for the webinar will be:
Tobita Chow of Global Justice
Corazon Fabros of the Asia-Europe Peoples Forum, the ASEAN Civil Society Conference- ASEAN Peoples Forum.
Mark Seldon, professor emeritus of Cornell University and Coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Journal
Tobita Chow is the director of Justice Is Global, a special project of People’s Action to build a more just and sustainable global economy and defeat right-wing nationalism. His recent work focuses on the US-China relationship and the growth of Sinophobia under the COVID-19 crisis.
Corazon Valdez Fabros is Lead convenor of the STOP the War Coalition Philippines and Nuclear Free Pilipinas. She is Vice President of International Peace Bureau and a core member of thematic circle on Peace and Security both at the civil society process at Asia-Europe Peoples Forum and the ASEAN Civil Society Conference- ASEAN Peoples Forum.
Mark Selden is a Research Associate at Columbia’s Weatherhead Center and the editor of The Asia-Pacific Journal apjjf/org. His research interests include the modern and contemporary geopolitics, political economy, history and social movements of China and the Asia Pacific. He is the author of China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited; Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, and (with Jenny Chan and Pun Ngai), Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers” (2020). His homepage is markselden.info/
