Kenneth R. Weinstein is Japan Chair at Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington-based think tank. Weinstein is also CEO, as well as co-founder with the late Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, of the Indo-Pacific Forum, an international, not-for-profit organization dedicated to furthering Abe's vision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific to collaborate on strategy, construct partnerships, and shape inclusive, sustainable policies and concrete initiatives for the security resilience, and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific region. From Wikipedia