East-West Center in the News

East-West Center in the News

9048 bookmarks
Custom sorting
Vietnam Communists Hold Election for National Assembly Involving One Party -- Bloomberg
Vietnam Communists Hold Election for National Assembly Involving One Party -- Bloomberg

(2001-05-21) "The Vietnamese government feels compelled to call their system democratic and to hold elections to try to tell the rest of the world that their version of democracy is just different from others," Raymond Burghardt, a former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam and now director of seminars at the East-West Center in Honolulu, said in a telephone interview. "But the essence of this political system is that no alternative centers of power will be permitted to emerge." -- Also appears in: San Francisco Chronicle and Businessweek

#RaymondBurghardt
eastwestcenter·bloomberg.com·
Vietnam Communists Hold Election for National Assembly Involving One Party -- Bloomberg
Google Says It Uncovered Attempt to Steal Users’ Gmail Account Passwords -- Bloomberg
Google Says It Uncovered Attempt to Steal Users’ Gmail Account Passwords -- Bloomberg

(2011-06-01) “A lot of this goes on internationally,” said Christopher McNally, a fellow and political economist at the East-West Center in Honolulu. “In most situations, it’s certain rogue organizations or even individuals that are doing it for profit.” -- Also appears in: BusinessWeek, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle

#ChristopherMcNally
eastwestcenter·bloomberg.com·
Google Says It Uncovered Attempt to Steal Users’ Gmail Account Passwords -- Bloomberg
South Korea Acknowledges Secret Talks with North --VOA News
South Korea Acknowledges Secret Talks with North --VOA News

(2011-06-02) Marcus Noland is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics and the East West Center in the United States. He says he supports President Lee's attempted dialogue.

"Really the story is not that the South Koreans were talking to the North Koreas - just like the Chinese and Americans are - but rather that the North Koreans chose to publically embarrass him just like they had done to a previous delegation of international statesmen that tried to reach out and open up some doors," he said.

Noland speculates that something is amiss in Pyongyang for it to be shutting down such contact at this time.

"I think it's likely that their internal politics are now going in a very hard-line militaristic direction," he said.

... Noland, an economist who closely follows North Korea, agrees with that scenario.

"I think that the likelihood of provocation over the next year is significantly high," he said. "The North Koreans, they're in a difficult situation. Their economy is not doing well. I think it's most likely that they're asking for food aid now because they are going to do a provocation of some sort and they anticipate things tightening up."

-- Also appears in: States News Service

#MarcusNoland
eastwestcenter·voanews.com·
South Korea Acknowledges Secret Talks with North --VOA News