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2016 IGE/KITA Global Trade Forum Te US and Northeast Asia in a Turbulent Time Gerald L. Curtis Gerald L. Curtis Gerald L. Curtis Donald Trump Hillary Clinto Bernie Sanders Trump phenomenon limousine liberal Goldman Sachs Barack Obama internationalist Elizabeth Warren social liberals Tea Party Ted Cruz John Kasich TPP lame duck gold standard Jeb Bush Q A Q A John Kerry Q A engagement strategy ASEAN engagement) AIIB World Bank IMF ADB credibility Q A Q A Q A ill Clinton Q A Q A Gerald Curtis Gerald Curtis is the Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and concurrently Visiting Professor at Waseda University and Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Economic Studies, Tokyo, and the Tokyo Foundation. Te US and Northeast Asia in a Turbulent Time1 Gerald L. Curtis Burgess Professor of Political Science Columbia University Tere are so many issues to talk about with the geopolitics of East Asia, US-Japan relations and US-Korea relations. Maybe what would be most useful would be for me to spend some time talking about domestic politics in the United States and in Japan as well as what the implications are for what is happening in our countries, in our foreign policy, and in the region.

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