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Anxieties And Opportunities For US In Asia -- Eurasia Review
Anxieties And Opportunities For US In Asia -- Eurasia Review

(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

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Anxieties And Opportunities For US In Asia -- Eurasia Review
Confucius Controversy -- The Diplomat (blog)
Confucius Controversy -- The Diplomat (blog)
(2011-03-07)Maria Wey-Shen Siow, East Asia bureau chief of Channel NewsAsia, noted this rising mistrust in the West in the January issue of the East-West Center's Asia Pacific Bulletin. But she says that although the concerns are 'not completely unfounded,' they also aren't 'totally warranted.'
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Confucius Controversy -- The Diplomat (blog)
Isles' radiation risk low, experts say -- Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Isles' radiation risk low, experts say -- Honolulu Star-Advertiser

(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."

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Isles' radiation risk low, experts say -- Honolulu Star-Advertiser
'Under cover' buyers -- New York Post
'Under cover' buyers -- New York Post
(2011-03-17)"There are a lot of people with the money now, and they want to be the first kid on the block with the new toy," said Eric Harwit, a political-science professor with the East-West Center. "Apple had been pretty unknown in China until recent years but iPhones and iPads are now the hot products to have."
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'Under cover' buyers -- New York Post