Press Releases from East-West Center (5 total)
IT Industry Drives China's Unique Industrial Capitalism
HONOLULU (July 26) – Over the past few years, “a distinctive Chinese variety of industrial capitalism has taken shape,” according to East-West Center Senior Fellow Dieter Ernst and Barry Naughton, professor of Chinese economy at the University of California, San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. This foray into once forbidden economic territory is no more readily evident than in China’s information technology (IT) industry, the two…
The Case for TPA
This commentary is the second in a two-part series on international trade policy written by Vinod K. Aggarwal, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center and East-West Center President and International Chair of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Charles E. Morrison.
For the first time in five years, the U.S. President is without Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), an essential so-called fast-track tool for…
Post-Potsdam: Open Season for FTAs
This commentary is the first in a two-part series on international trade policy written by East-West Center President and International Chair of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Charles E. Morrison and Vinod K. Aggarwal, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center.
The 1945 Potsdam conference in the famous Tudor-style Cecilienhof may have been the last successful allied conference before the onset of the…
Taiwan Seeks New 'Edge' in IT Innovation
HONOLULU (June 26) – Fifty years ago Taiwan was poor and underdeveloped. Yet by the turn of the 21st century the small island economy had established itself as an important global high-tech factory, becoming the preferred OEM (original equipment manufacturing) and ODM (original design manufacturing) supplier to many of the world’s IT industry leaders. That great leap forward, according to East-West Center Senior Fellow Dieter Ernst, can be traced in…
EWC's Lewis Named VP of Prestigious Science Group
HONOLULU (June 26) – Director of the East-West Center’s Research Program Nancy Lewis has been elected vice president of the prestigious Pacific Science Association (PSA) at its recently concluded conference in Okinawa, Japan. Serving as an officer in the influential science group is not new to Lewis. She most recently represented the PSA as its secretary-general and treasurer.
Founded in 1920, the PSA is the oldest interdisciplinary science organization in…
