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Water Challenges Asia's Rising Powers, Part I -- YaleGlobal
Water Challenges Asia's Rising Powers, Part I -- YaleGlobal

(2011-07-12) Change in China depends in growth, and many worry if that can be sustained, explains Kang Wu, a senior fellow and China energy scholar at East-West Center in Hawaii. "They want to double the size of the economy again in 10 years. If you look out 10, 20, 30 years, it just looks like it's not possible." -- Also appears in: The Nation

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Water Challenges Asia's Rising Powers, Part I -- YaleGlobal
Obama pushes buildup funding -- Pacific Daily News
Obama pushes buildup funding -- Pacific Daily News

(2011-07-14) If the United States ends up backing away from the troop realignment plan, there are two ways to look at it, said Denny Roy, a Honolulu-based expert on Asia military affairs at the East-West Center, a congressionally established think tank.

In a "superficial" sense, one could argue that the United States is not following through on its treaty, Roy said, but the issue just isn't that simple.

Considering the political roadblocks in Okinawa, and the hefty cost of Japan's tsunami recovery effort, it is likely this ally nation would actually welcome a troop relocation delay, Roy said.

"The U.S. political system allowing for reconsideration of the agreement, at least partly on the bases of new political and economic circumstance ... its partner government has to work in, ... doesn't make the U.S. look like a welcher, but in fact a more desirable partner in that respect," Roy said.

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Obama pushes buildup funding -- Pacific Daily News
Sea mud loaded with valuable metals -- Hawaii News Now
Sea mud loaded with valuable metals -- Hawaii News Now

(2011-07-20) "What you have is a jurisdictional issue, one country having the jurisdiction to go in and mine one kind of a product and another one having jurisdiction to go in and mine another one," East-West Center Sr. Fellow Allen Clark said.

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Sea mud loaded with valuable metals -- Hawaii News Now
China wakes up to innovation -- Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Op/Ed)
China wakes up to innovation -- Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Op/Ed)

(2011-07-24) In the last several years, China's leadership has placed high priority on shifting its economy from a "factory model" based on low-cost manufacturing of products designed elsewhere, to one that includes more original Chinese technology and design. To do this, Beijing has instituted so-called "indigenous innovation" policies resulting in massive investments in research-and- development infrastructure and higher education.

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China wakes up to innovation -- Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Op/Ed)