Had the honor of traveling with our delegation of Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars in Thailand, Vietnam, and further visits in South Korea and Singapore as part of the fellowship study tour this summer. We had a chance to meet with diplomatic and academic counterparts, civil society and think tankers from across the region while taking in some incredible landscape. A really rich and memorable experience at this particular juncture in US-Indo-Pac relations.
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