East-West Center in the News

(2011-03-04)Improving the sluggish U.S. economy is clearly the top concern of American leaders right now, but U.S. relationships with Asian nations are also of great interest-producing a complex mix of unease and opportunity, according to Dr. Satu Limaye, Director of the East-West Center in Washington. The links between globalization and the rise of China, and related economic, political and security implications, are among the subjects that trouble many American policy-makers, Limaye said during a recent keynote address at the East-West Center's International Graduate Student Conference in Honolulu. Click HERE to view video

(2011-03-15) Toufiq Siddiqi, who has a doctorate in nuclear physics and is an adjunct senior fellow at the East-West Center, said yesterday that he felt that at the moment, the risk to Hawaii from the Japanese nuclear reactor radiation leaks was minimal. "What would be the greatest concern, really, is if the containment vessels broke. Then it would be a much larger concern," Siddiqi said. "But at the moment, it seems that it is holding out."