Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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 The Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, headed by Acting Assistant Secretary Susan Thornton, deals with U.S. foreign policy and U.S. relations with the countries in the Asia-Pacific region. |
U.S.-ASEAN Meeting
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U.S.-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue
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U.S.-New Zealand Relationship
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U.S.- Australia Ministerial Consultations
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North Korea
Secretary Tillerson (Apr. 28): "We must work together to adopt a new approach and impose increased diplomatic and economic pressures on the North Korean regime." Full Text» More» Trip Page» |
Secretary Tillerson (Aug. 7): "We had also some very constructive conversations with our ASEAN colleagues in the U.S.-ASEAN meeting...just continuing the strong commitment from both an economic and security standpoint but also continuing the cultural and people-to-people exchanges that exist today through a number of educational programs and other efforts that we think are important for drawing our peoples closer together." 
Secretary Tillerson (June 21): "U.S. and China have undergone – relations have undergone a profound transformation over the past 40 years. These dialogues provide an opportunity to consider how we’re going to engage and how we’re going to live with one another over the next 40 years." 
Secretary Tillerson (June 6): "This relationship between our two nations...we are walking up to a 75-year anniversary of the landing of troops in World War II. And this was a deployment, important deployment point for many of our troops who were fighting alongside one another to achieve the victory of World War II." 
Secretary Tillerson (June 5): "This relationship between the U.S. and Australia, which now approaches a century, and really formalized in the Treaty of 1951, but it’s really built...around the most fundamental values...freedom, democracy, a rules-based order for the world."