Rena Sasaki is a U.S.-Japan Next Generation Leaders' Initiative fellow with the Pacific Forum, a foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
U.S. can energize talks with discussion of EU-style collective protection tools


Joe Biden, Fumio Kishida and Narendra Modi participate in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework launch event in Tokyo on May 23: The IPEF should have a collective economic self-defense mechanism. © AP
Rena Sasaki is a U.S.-Japan Next Generation Leaders' Initiative fellow with the Pacific Forum, a foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii.