Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

U.S. State Department division

Office of Chinese Affairs

JurisdictionExecutive branch of the United StatesHeadquartersHarry S. Truman Building, Washington, D.C., United StatesEmployees1,545 (As of 2013^[update])^[1]^{[permanent dead link]}Annual budget$336 million (diplomatic engagement budget), $760 million (foreign assistance budget) (FY 2020)Bureau executive

Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Parent departmentU.S. Department of StateWebsitewww.state.gov/p/eap/

In the United States Government, the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP, originally the Office of Chinese Affairs) is part of the United States Department of State and is charged with advising the Secretary of State and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs on matters of the Asia-Pacific region, as well as dealing with U.S. foreign policy and U.S. relations with countries in the region. It is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, who reports to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Organization

The offices of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs direct, coordinate, and supervise U.S. government activities within the region, including political, economic, consular, public diplomacy, and administrative management issues.^[2]^[3]

Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island Affairs (EAP/ANP) – Coordinates policy on Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Antarctica
Office of China Coordination (China House) (EAP/CHINA) – Coordinates policy regarding China^[4]
Office of Regional and Security Policy (EAP/RSP)
Office of Public Affairs (EAP/P) – Coordinates the bureau's media engagement and domestic public outreach, and prepares press guidance for the Department Spokesperson in the Bureau of Public Affairs
Office of Japanese Affairs (EAP/J) – Oversees Japan–United States relations
Office of Mainland Southeast Asian Affairs (EAP/MLS) – Coordinates policy on Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
Office of Maritime Southeast Asian Affairs (EAP/MTS) – Coordinates policy on Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.
Office of Korean and Mongolian Affairs (EAP/KM) – Coordinates policy towards North Korea and South Korea. Since 2022 this office as also coordinated bilateral relations with Mongolia.
Office of Public Diplomacy (EAP/PD)
Office of Multilateral Affairs (EAP/MLA) – Coordinates policy regarding the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the East Asia Summit, the ASEAN Regional Forum, the Lower Mekong initiative and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific
Office of Taiwan Coordination (EAP/TC) – Oversees Taiwan–United States relations
Office of Economic Policy (EAP/EP)
Office of the Executive Director (EAP/EX) – Oversees the bureau's human resources and resource management

Budget

Its budget for FY 2020 was $336 million for diplomatic engagement and $760 million for foreign assistance.^[5]

References

^ "Inspection of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs" (PDF). Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State. September 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
^ "State Department Student Internship Brochure" (PDF). U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Human Resources. September 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
^ "1 FAM 130 Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP)". Foreign Affairs Manual. U.S. Department of State. July 6, 2015. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
^ "Secretary Blinken Launches the Office of China Coordination". United States Department of State. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
^ "The FY 2020 Budget Request for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs". 2017-2021.state.gov. Retrieved July 8, 2023.

External links

Official website

United States Department of State

Headquarters: Harry S Truman Building

Deputy Secretary of State and
Deputy Secretary of State for
Management and Resources

Office of Foreign Assistance
Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
Office of the U.S. Coordinator for the Arctic Region

Under Secretary for
Political Affairs

Bureau of African Affairs
Bureau of Counterterrorism
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Bureau of International Organization Affairs (United States Mission to the United Nations)
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs

Under Secretary for Economic
Growth, Energy, and the Environment

Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Bureau of Energy Resources
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Office of the Chief Economist
Office of Global Food Security
Office of Global Partnerships
Office of the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary

Under Secretary for Arms Control
and International Security

Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
International Security Advisory Board

Under Secretary for Public
Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Bureau of Global Public Affairs
Global Engagement Center
International Expositions Unit
Office of Global Youth Issues
Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

Under Secretary
for Management

Bureau of Administration
Bureau of Budget and Planning
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Bureau of Global Talent Management
Bureau of Information Resource Management
Bureau of Medical Services
Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services
Foreign Service Institute (Office of the Historian)
Office of Foreign Missions
Director of Diplomatic Reception Rooms
Office of Management Strategy and Solutions
Office of White House Liaison

Under Secretary for Civilian Security,
Democracy, and Human Rights

Bureaus/Offices reporting
directly to the Secretary

Chief of Staff
Office of the Counselor
Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of Legislative Affairs
Executive Secretariat (Operations Center)
Policy Planning Staff (Foreign Affairs Policy Board)
Office of Civil Rights
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Office of Global Women's Issues
Office of Inspector General
Office of the Chief of Protocol
Office of the Legal Adviser
Office of the Ombudsman
Office of the Secretary's Special Representative for Syria Engagement
Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology
Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs
Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
Office of the Special Representative for Venezuela
Office of the United States Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority
Office of the U.S. Special Coordinator for the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment
Iran Action Group
Foreign Service Grievance Board
Secretary's Open Forum

v t e Australia–United States relations
Diplomatic posts	Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C. Ambassadors of Australia to the United States Embassy of the United States, Canberra Ambassadors of the United States to Australia Consuls-General of Australia, New York Australian Consulate-General, Houston Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Diplomacy	AUSMIN Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement Friends of Australia Congressional Caucus United States presidential visits to Australia U.S./Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group
Incidents	Battle of Brisbane United States diplomatic cables leak Julian Assange David Hicks Death of Tina Watson Implications of U.S. gene patent invalidation on Australia Mamdouh Habib Melbourne–Evans collision Sydney anti-Islam film protests Killing of Justine Damond
Military relations	ANZUS AUKUS Exercise Talisman Saber Five Eyes UKUSA Agreement International Maritime Security Construct Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar Major non-NATO ally Marine Rotational Force – Darwin Operation Blowdown Pine Gap Quadrilateral Security Dialogue Southeast Asia Treaty Organization War Plan Red
Related	2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Final Australian–American Memorial Australia and the American Civil War Southern Cross Cable PacRimWest Pipe Pacific Cable Telstra Endeavour United States Studies Centre
Category:Australia–United States relations

v t e China–United States relations
Diplomatic posts	Embassy of China, Washington, D.C. Ambassadors of China to the United States Embassy of the United States, Beijing Ambassadors of the United States to China Chinese Consulate-Generals Los Angeles Houston American Consulate-Generals Chengdu Guangzhou Hong Kong and Macau Shanghai Shenyang Wuhan Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Office of China Coordination
Diplomacy	Treaty of Wanghia Treaty of Tientsin Burlingame Treaty Gresham-Yang Treaty Shanghai International Settlement American Concession (Shanghai) United States Court for China Treaty between the United States and China for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of China Marshall Mission Loss of China China White Paper PRC-US Ambassadorial Talks 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China Shanghai Communiqué Three Communiqués One-China policy Nixon goes to China Nixon's China Game Harvey Feldman Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Goldwater v. Carter State visit by Deng Xiaoping to the United States Presidential Rule of Law Initiative Beijing–Washington hotline State visit by Xi Jinping to the United States 2015 United States–China Cybersecurity Agreement Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action United States–China talks in Alaska United States–China Working Group
Conflicts	Boxer Rebellion Eight-Nation Alliance China Relief Expedition Chinese Civil War Korean War Allegations of biological warfare in the Korean War Cross-Strait conflict First Taiwan Strait Crisis Operation King Kong Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Third Taiwan Strait Crisis CIA Tibetan program Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
Incidents	Rover incident Chy Lung v. Freeman Cheong Ah Moy v. United States Chae Chan Ping v. United States Twain–Ament indemnities controversy 1905 Chinese boycott USS Monocacy incident Red Scare Qian Xuesen 1946 United States Air Force C-47 Crash at Yan'an Shen Chong case Lamont v. Postmaster General Hu Na Project Sabre II Yinhe incident 1996 United States campaign finance controversy Johnny Chung Liu Chaoying United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade Hainan Island incident Operation Shady RAT Operation Aurora United States diplomatic cables leak 2012 China anti-Japanese demonstrations Murder of Shao Tong Disappearance of David Louis Sneddon Trump–Tsai call Havana syndrome Animal Science Products v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceuticals China Initiative Trial of Anming Hu Concerns over Chinese involvement in 5G wireless networks Meng Wanzhou Extradition TikTok v. Trump U.S. WeChat Users Alliance v. Trump COVID-19 misinformation United States Department of Defense China Task Force 2022 visit by Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan Chinese espionage in the United States Cyberwarfare by China Alleged Chinese spy cases persecuted in the United States Cox Report Timeline of the Cox Report controversy American espionage in China Hugh Francis Redmond Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay 2023 balloon incident
Military relations	Yangtze Patrol Alice Dollar incident Second Sino-Japanese War American Volunteer Group Black Cat Squadron Development of Chinese Nationalist air force (1937–1945) China Air Task Force China Marines Dixie Mission Flying Tigers Operation Beleaguer Sino-American Cooperative Organization Exercise RIMPAC
Legislation	United States sanctions against China U.S. immigration policy Magnuson Act Taiwan Relations Act Executive Order 12711 Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 United States-Hong Kong Policy Act United States–Hong Kong Agreement for the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders Forced Abortion Condemnation Act Taiwan Security Enhancement Act United States–China Relations Act of 2000 Wolf Amendment Taiwan Travel Act EQUITABLE Act Hong Kong Be Water Act Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act Tibet Policy and Support Act Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative Act Proclamation 10043 Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act Hong Kong Autonomy Act Executive Order 13936 Executive Order 13959 Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act Executive Order 14032 United States Innovation and Competition Act Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
Economic relations	Old China Trade United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission Group of Two Strategic Economic Dialogue Summer Palace Dialogue U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue Senior Dialogue China–United States trade war (Trump tariffs) Permanent normal trade relations
Related	History of China–United States relations Hong Kong–United States relations Macau–United States relations Taiwan–United States relations Americans in China Chinese Americans Anti-American sentiment in mainland China Ruguanxue Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States Chimerica China Lobby Asia First Chinese Century China Hands China watcher Cold War in Asia Second Cold War Artificial Intelligence Cold War Ping-pong diplomacy Triangular diplomacy Peaceful Evolution theory Linkage (policy) String of Pearls (Indian Ocean) Thucydides Trap Hong (business) Air route authority between the United States and China Blue Team TPE (cable system) Protestant missions in China Elijah Coleman Bridgman Divie Bethune McCartee The 1990 Institute Boxer Indemnity Scholarship China Aid Society Chinese Educational Mission Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Kissinger Institute on China and the United States National Committee on United States–China Relations Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction US-China Business Council US–China Education Trust US–China Peoples Friendship Association Massachusetts International Academy Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China International School of Beijing SARS conspiracy theory Yixian glazed pottery luohans Harvard Bixi William H. Hinton Human Rights Record of the United States USA pavilion at Expo 2010 New Federal State of China China Human Rights Biweekly Far East Reporter Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit The Coming Conflict with China A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China The New Chinese Empire The Art of Investing in America On China Peaceful War The Transpacific Experiment Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept Red Chinese Battle Plan The China Hustle
Category:China–United States relations

v t e North Korea–United States relations
Diplomatic posts	Old Korean Legation Museum United States Special Representatives for North Korea Embassy of the United States, Seoul Ambassadors of the United States to South Korea Embassy of Sweden, Pyongyang Permanent Mission of North Korea to the United Nations Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Diplomacy	Agreed Framework Six-party talks 2018–19 Korean peace process Singapore Summit Reactions Hanoi Summit DMZ Summit Peace Treaty on Korean Peninsula Recovery of US human remains from the Korean War
Conflicts	Korean conflict Korean War Hill 303 massacre Sinchon Massacre Operation Combat Fox Operation Formation Star Allegations of biological warfare Korean Armistice Agreement Iran–Iraq War CIA activities in North Korea Team Spirit Foal Eagle Operation Weasel Max Thunder Ulchi-Freedom Guardian Nuclear power in North Korea North Korea and weapons of mass destruction Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization Yemeni civil war Iran–Israel proxy conflict Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
Incidents	Chaplain–Medic massacre Bloody Gulch massacre Charles Robert Jenkins USS Pueblo (AGER-2) 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident Lod Airport massacre Korean axe murder incident Evan Hunziker Axis of Evil Disappearance of David Louis Sneddon Delta Asia Financial Group Dai Hong Dan incident 2009 imprisonment of American journalists Euna Lee Laura Ling Han Park Aijalon Gomes Kenneth Bae Dennis Rodman Merrill Newman Matthew Todd Miller Jeffrey Edward Fowle The Interview Sony Pictures hack Otto Warmbier North Korean Embassy in Madrid incident Travis King Foreign nationals detained in North Korea
Legislation	Sanctions against North Korea Iran, North Korea, Syria Nonproliferation Act North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2013 Trump travel ban Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
Related	South Korea–United States relations 2008 New York Philharmonic visit to North Korea 38 North Anti-American sentiment in Korea Death to America Korean American National Coordinating Council Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities State Sponsors of Terrorism Stuxnet Superdollar Put It Down
Category:North Korea–United States relations

v t e Taiwan–United States relations
Diplomatic posts	Former Embassy of Taiwan, Washington, D.C. Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Honolulu Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Miami Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Seattle Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States Twin Oaks Former Ambassador of the United States to China American Institute in Taiwan American Institute in Taiwan Kaohsiung Branch Office Former Embassy of the United States in Taipei U.S. Commercial Service in Taiwan Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Diplomacy	Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of China Formosa Resolution of 1955 July 2002 state visit to the United States Trump–Tsai call 2022 visit by Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan Congressional Taiwan Caucus Senate Taiwan Caucus Six Assurances
Incidents	Rover incident Raid on Taipei Capture of the Tuapse May 24 incident Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Goldwater v. Carter One-China policy United States beef imports in Taiwan 2022 Laguna Woods shooting
Military relations	Chinese Civil War First Taiwan Strait Crisis Operation King Kong Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Third Taiwan Strait Crisis United States Taiwan Defense Command Yangmingshan American Military Housing American arms sales to Taiwan Major non-NATO ally
Legislation	Taiwan Relations Act Taiwan Security Enhancement Act Taiwan Relations Act Affirmation and Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2014 Taiwan Travel Act Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative Act
Related	American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei Formosan Association for Public Affairs International Community Radio Taipei China–United States relations
Category:Taiwan–United States relations