Conférence annuelle sur l’Asie 2017

09:30 - Opening Remarks

• Thomas Gomart, Director of Ifri
• Zhang Ming-zhong, Representative, Taipei Representative Office in France

09:45 - Systemic change in Asia and the future of the regional order

Interactive debate moderated by Françoise Nicolas, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

• Seong Whun Cheon, Visiting Research Fellow, ASAN Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul
• Cheng-yi Lin, Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei
• Harsh V. Pant, Distinguished Fellow and Head of the Security Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
• Dingli Shen, Professor, Institute of International Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai
• Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC
• Dmitry Streltsov, Head, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO, Moscow
• Hideshi Tokuchi, Senior Fellow, Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo

11:45 - Coffee break

12:00 - France's strategic vision towards Asia

• Pauline Carmona, Deputy Director for Asia, Ministry for Europe and International Affairs, France

12:45 - Lunch break

14:00 - What options for stability on the Korean peninsula?

• Seong Whun Cheon, Visiting Research Fellow, ASAN Institute, and former Secretary to the President of the Republic of Korea for Security Strategy (2014-17)
• Discussants: Dingli Shen (Fudan University), Sheila Smith (Council on Foreign Relations), Dmitry Streltsov (MGIMO), Hideshi Tokuchi (GRIPS)
• Moderator: Alice Ekman, Research Fellow, Head of China Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

15:30 - Coffee break

15:45 - The changing geo-economic order in Asia and implications for European trade policy

• Françoise Nicolas, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
• Heungchong Kim, Senior Research Fellow, former Vice President, Korean Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
• Zhang Ming-zhong, Representative, Taipei Representative Office in France
• Moderator: Patrick Messerlin, Emeritus Professor, Sciences Po, Paris