Vietnam and the United States: Towards Strategic Cooperation

The CSIS Southeast Asia Program is pleased to present the Vietnam and the United States: Towards Strategic Cooperation conference on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. This half-day conference will be an opportunity for in-depth discussion on how the United States and Vietnam can forge closer security and defense ties and deepen strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. A light breakfast will be served.

8:30 AM - 9:10 AM Remarks by the Honorable Randall G. Schriver
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs
 
9:10 AM - 10:20 AM Panel 1: US-Vietnam Security and Defense Cooperation
 
BG Stephen L. A. Michael
Deputy Director, Strategic Planning and Policy (J5), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Ambassador David B. Shear
Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates; former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs

Dr. To Anh Tuan
Deputy Director-General, Bien Dong Institute for Maritime Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
 
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM Break                                                                
 
10:35 AM -11:45 AM Panel 2: US and Vietnam in the region
 
Dr. Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS; Director of Asian Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
 
Dr. Evan Medeiros
Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies, Georgetown University
 
Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc
Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United States
 
Moderator:
Dr. Amy Searight, Director, Southeast Asia Program, CSIS
 
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Remarks by Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc
Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United States

This event was made possible with support from Samsung and Chubb.