Facing a shutdown of her online news outlet, Nobel laureate Maria Ressa calls for journalists to band together to fight an online information ecosystem ‘built on lies laced with hate.’ ...more...

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The East-West Center recently launched the first edition of the Philippines Matters for America/America Matters for the Philippines publication and website on June 13th in Washington, DC at the Philippines Embassy, and June 15th at the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines. The publication highlights important facts and figures about the US-Philippines realtionship in areas such as trade, investment, jobs, educational exchange, demographics, cultural ties, and people-to-people connections. ...more... 

A new project underway in Pakistan seeks to support influencers who work to promote community cohesion through practicing pluralism and tolerance at the local grassroots level, with a particular focus on the role of women as peacebuilders. The program is a partnership between the nonprofit Global Neighbourhood for Media Innovation (GNMI), based in Karachi, and the East-West Center in Honolulu. ...more...

While calling China “the most serious long-term challenge to the international order,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged in a major policy speech recently that America’s primary competitor is also “integral to the global economy and to our ability to solve challenges from climate to COVID. "Put simply," he said, "the United States and China have to deal with each other for the foreseeable future.” The US strategy: “invest, align, compete.” …more…