From October 5 to 13, 2024, Professor Da Wei, Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) of Tsinghua University, participated in a series of release events for The Asia Foundation’s research report “U.S.-China-Southeast Asia Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Cooperation.” (Click “Read More” at the end of this article to download the original report.)

Photo of the Report

On May 15-16, 2024, CISS, together with The Asia Foundation and the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), organized a workshop on “U.S.- China-Southeast Asia Triangular Relations” in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop was co-moderated by Da Wei, John Brandon, Senior Director of The Asia Foundation, and Kirida Bhaopichitr, Director of the Economic Research Department at TDRI. Xiao Qian, Deputy Director of CISS; Zhao Minghao, Professor of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University and Non-resident Senior Fellow of CISS; Liu Qing, Vice President of the China Institute of International Studies; Liu Lin, Research Fellow of the Institute for International Strategic Studies at the Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C; and other Chinese scholars participated in the workshop, discussing the current situation and prospects of the triangular relations with seven American scholars and nine Southeast Asian scholars.

Photo of the Workshop in Bangkok

After the workshop, The Asia Foundation organized a research report “U.S.-China-Southeast Asia Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Cooperation” co-authored by Da Wei, John Brandon, David M. Lampton, Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, and Kuik Cheng-Chwee, Professor of the National University of Malaysia. The report summarizes the views of scholars from the three sides of the workshop in Bangkok and suggests that all sides break the narrative framework of strategic competition; the U.S. and China increase cooperation in Southeast Asia; and the centrality and subjectivity of ASEAN be strengthened.

Photo of Authors, Photo in Columbia University, and Photo in UC Berkeley

On October 7-11, The Asia Foundation held several report release events in Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco. Da Wei, John Brandon, David M. Lampton, and Kuik Cheng-Chwee held report release conferences successively at the Washington, D.C. office of The Asia Foundation, the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and the Institute of East Asian Studies at University of California, Berkeley. The authors also jointly visited the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, produced a podcast at the headquarters of The Asia Foundation in San Francisco, and dined with members of The Asia Foundation’s Board of Trustees in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.