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To mark CAPRI’s fourth anniversary on May 26, 2026, Minxin Pei, professor at Claremont McKenna College, led a conversation on the Trump–Xi summit and the evolution of US–China engagement into a “new Cold War.”
CAPRI’s 2026 Annual Forum brought together policymakers, scholars, and industry leaders to create innovative policy solutions for a changing world. Speakers explored energy transitions, the revival of competitiveness, the need to bolster social trust amid technological disruption and political polarization, and the implications of conflict in Ukraine and Iran on the Asia Pacific.
On April 8, 2026, former NBR president Roy D. Kamphausen discussed the security challenges that China’s People’s Liberation Army presents for the Asia Pacific, focusing on how China uses its military to influence the regional environment.
On January 29, 2026, CAPRI and the Yushan Fellow Program of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education hosted a roundtable featuring University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella on how to sustain open innovation and talent ecosystems with international partnerships in a fragmenting global order.
This joint CAPRI–Brookings event brings together experts on energy and policy to examine how Taiwan and other Asia-Pacific countries are balancing their sustainability goals and energy demands amid the ongoing US–China competition. This forms part of CAPRI’s recently launched research initiative on the Asia Pacific’s green transition.
Plamen Tonchev discussed China’s engagement in Europe’s Southeastern Periphery and explored what lessons the Asia Pacific can draw from these complex regional dynamics shaped by multiple external actors.
On Friday, October 3, 2025, CAPRI hosted its inaugural Leadership Forum featuring Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow, Deputy Corporate Head of HR at TSMC Lynette Ng, and CAPRI Chair Syaru Shirley Lin for a discussion on how innovative partnerships can build a resilient future.
On the 30th anniversary of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) system, CAPRI hosted a hybrid roundtable session to discuss its successes and fragilities.
To mark the launch of CAPRI’s partnership with the Brookings Institution, a closed-door expert roundtable brought together Brookings members and a diverse set of Taiwanese experts to discuss Taiwan’s resilience amid the second Trump administration’s trade and foreign policy shifts, and their broader implications for the Asia Pacific.
At this CAPRI Conversation, Mireya Solís of the Brookings Institution, Kristy Hsu of Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, and CAPRI board member Alicia García Herrero discussed how Taiwan and other US partners in East and Southeast Asia are actively recalibrating their trade and industrial strategies amid the intensifying great-power competition.