Our Initiatives:
This Task Force challenges the sustainability of the current US military infrastructure in East Asia and its ability to respond to evolving regional security and interstate relations, such as:
- Increasing tensions regarding the DPRK’s nuclear capabilities and its improved relations with Russia
- China’s increasing economic and military power
- Gradual rearmament of Japan
- Complications from competing regional economic interests among allies and non-allies
Policy Recommendations:
- Encourage China to join TPP negotiations, TPA passage is a priority
- Discourage the revision of the Japanese constitution while encouraging a build-up of Japan’s Self-Defense Force
- Work with Beijing to create an independent Northeast Asian Cooperative Security Forum
- Ratify UNCLOS
- Push through BRAC to reduce spending
- Redeploy non-essential US Marine forces from Okinawa to Guam
- Modify SOFA agreements
