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America’s top diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific, Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Kritenbrink, delivered video remarks on July 26 offering an update on the 18-month-old US Indo-Pacific Strategy to a conference of allies and partners from around the Pacific Rim gathered at the East-West Center.
Calling the Indo-Pacific region a key focus of the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy, Kritenbrink told the group of around 70 conferees at the East-West Center in Honolulu that “currently, we are in the midst of a strategic competition that will shape all our futures. It is a competition that challenges the very rules, institutions, norms, and relationships to enable freedom, peace, stability, and prosperity to flourish, and we must ensure that this common peace and prosperity continues.”
The meeting is the second in a series of three such dialogues the East-West Center is helping to coordinate in Washington, Honolulu, and Asia, at which American experts and officials can share perspectives on the strategy’s progress with allies and partners. Participants in the Honolulu event include the inaugural cohort of Resilient Pacific Islands Leaders (RPIL) fellows from nineteen of the twenty members of the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders, as well as observers and speakers from Australia, New Zealand, Sāmoa, South Korea, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the United States.
America’s top diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific, Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Kritenbrink, delivered video remarks on July 26 offering an update on the 18-month-old US Indo-Pacific Strategy to a conference of allies and partners from around the Pacific Rim gathered at the East-West Center.
Calling the Indo-Pacific region a key focus of the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy, Kritenbrink told the group of around 70 conferees at the East-West Center in Honolulu that “currently, we are in the midst of a strategic competition that will shape all our futures. It is a competition that challenges the very rules, institutions, norms, and relationships to enable freedom, peace, stability, and prosperity to flourish, and we must ensure that this common peace and prosperity continues.”
The meeting is the second in a series of three such dialogues the East-West Center is helping to coordinate in Washington, Honolulu, and Asia, at which American experts and officials can share perspectives on the strategy’s progress with allies and partners. Participants in the Honolulu event include the inaugural cohort of Resilient Pacific Islands Leaders (RPIL) fellows from nineteen of the twenty members of the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders, as well as observers and speakers from Australia, New Zealand, Sāmoa, South Korea, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the United States.
