NPC Newsmaker Program: Asian Regional Security

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Feb 08, 2012, 05:32 ET

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is released today by the National Press Club:

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Topic: "America's New Focus on Asia: A Conversation with CSIS Scholars on Regional Security Issues"

DAY: Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

TIME: Noon

PLACE: Murrow Room

National Press Club
National Press Building
529 14th St. NW, 13th floor
Washington, D.C. 20045

A Newsmaker on "America's New Focus on Asia: A Conversation with CSIS Scholars on Regional Security Issues" will cover a wide range of timely issues including nuclear deterrence, balance of power, climate change and disaster response, with emphasis on China, India and Iran.

The event, at noon Feb. 13 in the Murrow Room, is co-sponsored by the International Correspondents Committee and will feature three scholars on the Asian region from the Center for Strategic and International Studies:

Clark A. Murdock, senior adviser for the Defense and National Security Group at CSIS and director of the Project on Nuclear Issues.

Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies. He served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs from 1997 to 2001.

Ernest Bower, senior adviser and director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program and Pacific Partners Initiative. He is former president of the US-ASEAN Business Council.

The panel will be moderated by Myron Belkind, chair of the NPC's International Correspondents Committee and former AP bureau chief in New Delhi, Tokyo and London.

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