The East-West Center in Washington enhances US engagement and dialogue with the Asia-Pacific region through access to the programs and expertise of the Center and policy relevant research, publications and outreach activities, including those of the US Asia-Pacific Council.
Asia Matters for America is an interactive, online hub to explore the importance of Asia to the United States. AsiaMattersforAmerica.org | ASEAN | Japan | Korea | Australia
Upcoming Events
Feb 7: Futenma Relocation: The View from Henoko featuring Susumu Inamine, Mayor, Nago City, Okinawa, Japan - 10:00-11:30am
Recent Publications & Events
U.S.-China Competition in Asia: Legacies Help America
Robert Sutter argues that "the strong American foundation of webs of positive non-government regional interchange and the Obama government’s widely welcomed re-engagement with the region contrasts with rising China’s poor awareness of its historical impact on the region and limited non-government connections." Read more...
Indonesia's Blasphemy Law: Bleak Outlook for Minority Religions
Melissa Crouch writes that "While Indonesia’s transition to democracy in 1998 brought about greater freedoms for all religious groups, there has also been a dramatic increase in convictions of 'deviant' groups for blasphemy." Read more...
Taiwan: Crisis Deferred, But Maybe Not For Long
Denny Roy, Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, discusses the recent Taiwan elections, saying, "the essential question for Taiwan is how to retain its political autonomy when it is economically integrating with a China that has huge and growing relative economic and military power; when China’s government remains committed to forcible unification as a matter of regime survival; and when the staying power of the American protectorate is in doubt." Read more...
The Emerging Strategic Dynamic in Southeast Asia
Marvin C. Ott, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Adjunct Professor and Visiting Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, discusses why Southeast Asia "has become the arena where Chinese power and ambition confront an established US military presence reinvigorated by renewed American attention to the region." Read more ...
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