Indonesia’s Ambassador to the US and a cultural delegation from North Sumatra ceremonially broke ground recently for a future garden at EWC as a goodwill gift.
The East-West Center in Washington, in collaboration with the Osaka School of International Public Policy, welcomed six fellows of the U.S.-Japan-Southeast Asia Partnership in a Dynamic Asia program.
EWC's Pacific RISA program coordinated the Hawai'i-Pacific chapter of the official federal climate assessment.
Philippines journalist Maria Ressa, one of several newspeople collectively named as Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' was also honored at EWC's 2018 International Media Conference in Singapore as a journalist of courage and impact. Watch video of her presentation on “Undermining Free Press in Asia.”
Senior Fellow Marcus Noland writes that encouraging a positive evolution in North Korea’s political economy will require careful planning by its negotiating partners, most critically South Korea, while a naïve strategy could enable North Korea to modernize its military rather than shift in a more peaceful direction.
In early December, EWC hosted an Indo-Pacific Regional Security Dialogue bringing together 22 international scholars and journalists to discuss shared security concerns. Participants hailed from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, and the US.
Close to 30 graduates of the US South Pacific Scholarship Program shared how the program changed their lives and helped their communities at a special alumni conference in Fiji in early December commemorating the start of the program’s 25th year. ...more...
As part of an EWC-coordinated US Trade Study Tour for Chinese Journalists, a delegation of eight senior reporters visited soybean farmers in Iowa and a wide variety of other sources in Des Moines, DC and Seattle to learn firsthand about effects of the ongoing US-China trade dispute. ...more...
The Asian International Justice Initiative has released a new trial review report as well as a string of episodes in the prime-time Facing Justice TV series around the recent genocide verdict in part two of the second, and likely final, Khmer Rouge Tribunal case. ...more...
This year's Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan, or PILP, wrapped up Oct. 24 after several months of workshops and field trips at EWC and Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on such key issues as disaster management, development, education, environment, gender, health, and culture. View video.
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