Opening Remarks

Joseph J.Y. SUNG
Vice-Chancellor and President, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Panel Session I - How do China, Korea and Japan see the regional integration?

How does China see the regional integration? -- From foreign policy to mass-level perception

Professor ZHU Liqun
Vice President, China Foreign Affairs University,
China

Between Alliance and Regionalism: South Korea's Contending Discourses on East Asian Regional Cooperation and Integration

Professor Jong-Kun CHOI
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science & International Studies
Yonsei University
Korea

Japan and Evolving East Asian Regional Architecture: Straddling Integration and Soft-Balancing

Dr Ken JIMBO
Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University,
Japan

Moderator:

Jean-Pierre CABESTAN
Professor in Political Science, Head of Department of Government and International Studies,
Hong Kong Baptist University

Panel Session II - ASEAN's experience of regional integration and Community-building

ASEAN's Role in East Asian Regionalism: Manager or Leader?

Ambassador Rodolfo C. SEVERINO
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
Singapore

COUNTING DOWN TO 2015: Progress towards AEC and Perspectives of Vietnam

Dr Vo Tri THANH
Vice President, Central Institute for Economic Management,
Vietnam

H.E. Amb. Ngurah Swajaya
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to ASEAN,
Indonesia

Moderator:

Mr Takanori KITAMURA
Senior Research Fellow, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Panel Session III - Economic and financial cooperation and the regional integration

From Regionalization to Regionalism in East Asia

Professor Shujiro URATA
Professor of Economics, Waseda University
Japan

Asia’s Institutional Architecture for Economic and Financial Integration

Dr Giovanni CAPANNELLI
Principal Economist, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo

Production Specialisation and Intra-regional Trade in Asia – the Case of Electronics Industry

Mr. Edward Leung
Chief Economist
Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Moderator:

Professor SUNG Yun-wing
Chairman, Department of Economics,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Panel Session IV - Issues of common concern to be addressed through regional cooperation

Emergent Energy Cooperation in Asia; Pathways for the Future

Mr Justin DARGIN
Research Fellow, Dubai Initiative-Harvard University,
United States

A Economic-Historical Study of Eco-Tourism in Northeast Asia

Professor LIM Tai Wei
Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Crossing the Traditional Security Rubicon: Non-traditional Security as a Platform for Broader Regionalism in East Asia

Professor Stephen Robert NAGY
Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Moderator:

Professor Simon X. H. SHEN
Adjunct Associate Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong