Annual Seminar Series SeminarWednesday 18 June 2025
10:00am – 11:00am (UK) / 6:00pm – 7:00pm (Japan)
The Second Trump Administration: A Changing International Order
Online webinar, accessible remotely via Zoom
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Booking closedTrump’s second term has been impacting international relations between the US and the rest of the world at a whirlwind pace. The US-led international order established after WWII is shifting, bringing uncertainty on security, defence and free trade to NATO, Japan and the rest of the world.
In this webinar, moderated by Bill Hayton of Chatham House, Japan’s former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Hitoshi Tanaka discussed the new Trump Administration and its effects on the global order. How is the post-WWII international system changing, what are the potential impacts on Japan, and what can Japan do to mitigate them?
WRITTEN SUMMARY: HITOSHI TANAKA AND BILL HAYTON
A recording of this event can be viewed here:
About the contributors
Hitoshi Tanaka
Hitoshi Tanaka is the special advisor of the Institute for International Strategy at the Japan Research Institute, Ltd. after having served as the chairman of the Institute and a senior fellow at the nongovernmental Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE). Prior to joining JCIE in September 2005, he served for three years as Japan’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs where he was a top advisor to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on a broad range of issues. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a graduate of Kyoto University and Oxford University (P.P.E). X: @TanakaDiplomat, YouTube: @tanakadiplomat
Bill Hayton (moderator)
Bill Hayton was appointed as an associate fellow with the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House in 2015. He is a former BBC journalist, the author of four books on Asia, and the editor of the academic journal Asian Affairs. He was the BBC’s reporter in Vietnam in 2006-7 and was seconded to the public broadcaster in Myanmar in 2013-14.
Bill is the author of Vietnam: rising dragon (Yale 2010, second edition 2020) and A Brief History of Vietnam (Tuttle, 2022). He has written two other books: The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia (Yale, 2014) and The Invention of China (Yale, 2020) and numerous articles on Asian issues. In 2019 he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge for work on the history and development of the South China Sea disputes. Bill worked for the BBC for 22 years until January 2021 and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.