The CSIS Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative are pleased to present the Eighth Annual CSIS South China Sea Conference on Thursday, July 26, 2018.
This full-day conference will provide opportunities for in-depth discussion and analysis of developments in the South China Sea over the past year and potential paths forward. The event will feature speakers from throughout the region, including claimant countries. Panels will address recent developments, legal and environmental issues, the strategic balance, and U.S. policy.
9:00 a.m. Morning Keynote
Representative Ted Yoho
Chair, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Committee on Foreign Affairs
United States House of Representatives
9:45 a.m. Panel: State of Play in the South China Sea over the Past Year
Bill Hayton
Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme
Chatham House
Colin Willett
Asia Section Research Manager
Congressional Research Service
Sumathy Permal
Fellow and Head of Centre for Straits of Malacca
Maritime Institute of Malaysia
Feng Zhang
Fellow, Department of International Relations
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Moderator:
Amy Searight
Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. Panel: Dispute Resolution in the South China Sea and Beyond
Commodore Lalit Kapur (Retd)
Senior Fellow
Delhi Policy Group
Charles I-hsin Chen
Visiting Senior Fellow
Institute for Taiwan-America Studies
Bec Strating
Lecturer
La Trobe University
Thanh Hai Do
Senior Fellow
Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
Moderator:
Gregory Poling
Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative; and Fellow, Southeast Asia Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies
12:30 p.m. Lunch Served
1:15 p.m. Lunch Keynote (off the record)
The Honorable Randall G. Schriver
Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
United States Department of Defense
2:00 p.m. Panel: Environmental Issues in the South China Sea
Vo Si Tuan
Senior Scientist
Institute of Oceanography, Nha Trang
Carmen Ablan Lagman
Professor
De La Salle University
Rashid Sumaila
Director, Fisheries Economics Research Unit
University of British Columbia
Mark Powell
Senior Researcher, Oceans
Vulcan Inc.
Moderator:
Brian Harding
Deputy Director and Fellow, Southeast Asia Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies
3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. Panel: The Military Balance in the South China Sea
Collin Koh Swee Lean
Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Nanyang Technological University
Hideshi Tokuchi
Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow
Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA
Richard Heydarian
Fellow
ADR-Stratbase Institute
Bonnie Glaser
Senior Advisor and Director, China Power Project
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Moderator:
Andrew Shearer
Senior Adviser on Asia Pacific Security and Director, Alliances and American Leadership Project
Center for Strategic and International Studies
4:45 p.m. Adjourn
This event is made possible by the FESS Foundation, the Embassy of Australia, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Embassy of Japan, the Embassy of New Zealand, and general support to CSIS.
