What kind of a leadership role can Australia and Japan play in the Asia Pacific region at a time of immense change?

How can regional mechanisms like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) succeed amidst an emerging wave of anti-globalisation sentiment?

Following the demise of the TPP and given the election of President Donald Trump in the US, how can Japan and Australia pursue their mutual trade and integration interests in this new trade environment?

These questions will be the focus of a workshop on 17 March 2017. The workshop, titled ‘Japan, Australia and the new Regional Economic Order’, will bring together leading researchers, policymakers and analysts working on issues of economic and strategic cooperation in the Asia Pacific region.

Speakers include:

• Associate Professor He Ping, Fudan University
• Professor Takashi Terada, Doshisha University
• Professor Peter Drysdale, ANU
• Dr Dong Dong Zhang, ANU
• Dr Amy King, ANU
• Dr Shiro Armstrong, ANU

The event is hosted by the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the ANU and is supported by the Toshiba Foundation. The AJRC is extremely grateful to the Toshiba Foundation for its support of this project.