Sustaining Trilateralism: US-ROK-Japan People-to-People Diplomacy

The U.S., ROK, and Japan trilateral partnership has received significantly greater policy attention in recent years, especially since the August 18, 2023, Camp David summit, which helped institutionalize deeper three-way coordination on security, economic security, and regional strategy. Yet a broader public understanding of the partnership, and of what it means at the human level, remains less developed than elite-level engagement. In all three countries, sustaining trilateral cooperation will require more than managing its institutional architecture. It will also require building the public trust, social ties, and shared sense of purpose that can give it long-term resilience. Bringing together practitioners, scholars, and civil society voices, this panel explores what trilateral cooperation looks like beyond summit statements and official frameworks, and what public diplomacy and people-to-people exchange can contribute that formal policy mechanisms alone cannot

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