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Former President Heine joined EWC Vice President Karena Lyons recently on the Center's biweekly online discussion program East-West Center Insights to discuss Compact of Free Association negotiations, US-China relations in the Pacific, global climate diplomacy, and women in leadership. Click for video.

​In 2018, Hurricane Lane spurred an unprecedented combination of record downpours and destructive wildfires in the Hawaiian islands. Now a new a study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, co-authored by EWC researcher Ryan Longman, looks at both the weather conditions leading up to the storm and its societal impacts. ...more...

Ressa, an EWC Media Programs alum and recent Time Magazine Person of the Year who has been prosecuted by the Duterte administration and relentlessly harrassed on social media, spoke in an EWC Seminars Live online address July 14 as EWC's 2020 Chaplin Fellowship in Distinguished Journalism honoree. Watch the video.

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded UH Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies in partnership with EWC a million-dollar grant for the "LuceSEA Transitions: Environment, Society and Change" project exploring the socioeconomic and environmental shifts transforming Southeast Asian societies. ...more...

EWC VP and Director of EWC in Washington Dr. Satu Limaye recently testified to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission that while China’s strategic motivations and strengths are now primarily aimed toward East Asia or the western Pacific, as Beijing’s capabilities increase its interests may expand to the entire Indo-Pacific region. ...more...