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...

At a conference on the sidelines of the recent East Asia Summit in Singapore, EWC and partners launched the newly updated Asia Matters for America website and publications highlighting business, diplomatic, security, and cultural engagement between the US and Indo-Pacific. ...more...

Senior Fellow Denny Roy writes in the Japan Times that US "freedom of navigation" patrols in the South China Sea signal resistance to China's push for a sphere of influence over the region's vital sea and air lanes.

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.

Following a recent high-level dialogue on smart city development, experts from Microsoft, MasterCard and Singapore discussed how smart technologies are fundamentally changing the dynamics of urban life, while also creating new tensions in areas such as personal privacy, social equity and justice. Watch video of the panel.