The Impact of the Tokyo Quad Summit on Emerging Indo-Pacific Strategies

19:00PM – 20:00PM PST // 22:00PM – 23:00PM EST; June 16th, 2022
11:00AM – 12:00PM JST/KST; June 17th, 2022
07:30AM – 08:30PM IST; June 17th, 2022

On June 16, 2022, at 7pm (PDT), the Centre for Japanese Research hosted an important panel discussion on the Tokyo Quad Summit and how it will affect geopolitical strategies in the Indo-Pacific. On May 24th 2022, Japan hosted the fourth Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and newly-elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The Quad, as a Strategic Security Dialogue between these four countries, establishes a security dynamic in the Indo-Pacific region that will compete with the geopolitical interests of certain Indo-Pacific states, such as China. The summit concluded with the four leaders agreeing to their commitment to a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” to “… resolve to uphold the international rules-based order where countries are free from all forms of military, economic, and political coercion.” This poses a question on the political and geopolitical ramifications the Quad Summit has in the Indo-Pacific and the entire international community.

To address this question, the Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research at the UBC Centre for Japanese research will host an online event conversing with esteemed scholars throughout the world to share their opinions of this Summit.

Speakers:
Dr. Swaran Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli)
Dr. Yul Sohn (Yonsei University, Seoul; East Asia Institute)
Dr. Janice Gross Stein (Munk School of Global Affairs – University of Toronto, Toronto)
Dr. Haruka Takenaka (GRIPS, Tokyo)
Dr. Yves Tiberghien (Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research; UBC SPPGA)
Moderators/Discussants:
Hari Narayam (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

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