-- East Asia and Pacific

--12/18/08  Asia-Pacific U.S. Military Overview; Admiral Timothy Keating, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- Video
--11/10/08  Preview of U.S. Priorities for APEC; Ambassador Patricia Haslach, U.S. Senior Official for APEC, Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- Video
--11/05/08  Asia-Pacific U.S. Military Overview; Admiral Timothy Keating, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--07/17/08  Preview of the ASEAN Regional Forum and ASEAN-U.S. Ministerial Meeting; Scot Marciel, U.S. Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs & Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, East Asian & Public Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript -- View Video
--05/21/08  Ambassador Cumber's Vision for Collaboration with the OIC; Ambassador Sada Cumber, Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC); Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - Audio to Briefing
--03/19/08  Moving Forward in 2008: The U.S.-East Asia Relationship; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/27/08  Update on Pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia; Ambassador Susan Schwab, U.S. Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/08/07  The Way Forward in Burma; Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/02/07  Update on Six-Party Talks; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--08/29/07  Pre-APEC Roundtable; Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, United States Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/26/07  Preview of Treasury Secretary Paulson's Trip to China; Ambassador Alan Holmer, Special Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/27/07  Expanding Outreach to the Muslim World; Karen Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/31/07  Preview of Remarks to the Institutional Investors 4th Annula China Investment Forum; Clay Lowery, Acting Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--05/18/07  Preview of the Second Session of the Strategic Economic Dialogue with China; Ambassador Alan Holmer, Special Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/26/07  Preview of the Bush - Abe Meeting; Dennis Wilder, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs, NSC; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/17/07  U.S. - Japan Economic Relations; Senior U.S. Treasury Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/06/07  Readout on North Korea Six-Party Talks U.S.-DPRK Working Group Meetings in New York; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--12/20/06  Outcome of Secretary of Energy Bodman's Trip to Asia and the Five-Party Ministerial Talks; Karen Harbert, Assistant Secretary for International Relations and Policy, U.S.Department of Energy; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/13/06  APEC Preview; Senior Administration Officials, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/06  APEC Ministerial and Summit Meetings; Ambassador Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/25/06  Hospital Ship Mercy Deployment/Current Pacific Command Operations; Admiral Gary Roughead, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Washington Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/19/06  U.S. - China Energy Policy Dialogue; Karen Harbert, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy; Washington Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC
--09/12/06  Preview of the Upcoming Meeting Between U.S. President George W. Bush and President Roh Moo-Hyun of the Republic of Korea; A Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/21/06  East Asia Update; Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/11/06  President Bush's Trip to the G-8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/27/06  Preview of the Upcoming Visit of Japan's Prime Minister Koizumi; Senior U.S. Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/09/06  G8 Summit and Related Issues; Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/10/06  Deployment of Hospital Ship 'Mercy' and Current Pacific Command Operations; Admiral Gary Roughead, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/26/06  Upcoming Asian Development Bank Meetings and India Visit; Timothy D. Adams, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/18/06  U.S.-China Trade Relations and Chinese President Hu Jintao's Visit; Carlos M. Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/17/06  U.S. China Relations and the Upcoming Visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao; Senior U.S. Government Officials, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/10/05  The President's Upcoming Trip to Asia; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/14/05  Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's Upcoming Trip to Asia; Senior Defense Department Official, ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/13/05  Upcoming Trip to Asia; John A. Thain, CEO, New York Stock Exchange; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/04/05  The Six-Party Talks; Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/10/05  The Six-Party Talks; Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/01/05  Tsunami Aftermath: U.S. NGOs' Role in Rebuilding; James Bishop , Acting CEO and Director of Humanitarian Practice and Policy, Interaction ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/16/05  Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired), ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/25/05  Presidents Bush and Clinton's Tsunami Region Visit, February 19-21; Ambassador Douglas A. Hartwick, Senior Coordinator of the State Department's Tsunami Reconstruction; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/03/05  Update: U.S. Government Relief Efforts in Asia; William Garvelink, Senior Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/17/04  The President's Trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting in Santiago, Chile; Senior Administration Officials, ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/23/04  Future of the Alliance Policy Initiative; Richard P. Lawless, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Asia-Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/27/04  The G-8 Summit; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/10/04  Foreign Media Credentialling for the Sea Island Summit of G8 Nations, June 8-10, 2004; Barry Bennett, Director of Communications, Sea Island Summit Planning Organization; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/20/03  U.S.-Taiwan-China Issues; Randy Schriver, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/10/03  Update on Asian-Pacific Issues; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Transcript from the Department of Defense Web Site
--10/03/03  Changing Minds, Winning Peace; Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/22/02  APEC Summit: Latin American and Economic Issues; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/21/02  Scenesetter for the Visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the Trip of President George W. Bush to the APEC Summit; Senior Administration Official, ; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/15/02  Scenesetter for the Upcoming APEC meetings in Los Cabos, Mexico; Ambassador C. Lawrence Greenwood, U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/29/02  International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference on East Asia Security; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/30/02  Scenesetter for Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao's Visit to the United States; Senior Administration Officials, ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/24/02  Upcoming Visit to Korea, Japan and the Philippines ; General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/11/02  Scenesetter for Trip to Japan and China, April 17-24, 2002; Don Evans, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/14/02  U.S. Policy Toward the East Asia Pacific Region; James A. Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and the Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--11/19/01  U.S. Foreign Policy in the Asia Pacific Region: An Overview; James A. Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/10/01  Upcoming APEC Meetings in Shanghai, China; Lawrence Greenwood, U.S. Coordinator for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--07/16/01  Scene-Setter for the G-8 Summit in Genoa; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/30/01  Meeting with Washington-based Japanese Media; Senator Howard Baker, U.S. Ambassador-Designate to Japan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--05/24/01  East Asia Through the Prism of the U.S.-Japan Relationship; Thomas Foley, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--01/12/01  U.S. Asian Policy Overview; Stanley Roth, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)