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June 10, 2020

The Pacific Council has launched a new platform for our member-written commentary and analysis. We are unveiling the Pacific Council Magazine, where you can find pieces written by our members on local-to-global topics, plus member spotlights and recaps and recordings from our events. Bookmark the new Pacific Council Magazine at pacificcouncil.online.

All previously published Newsroom articles are available below in the Newsroom Archive.

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May 20, 2021

CONTINUING OUR COLLABORATION ON FOREIGN REPORTING WITH USC

September 17, 2020

A GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA'S LOCAL-TO-GLOBAL BALLOT MEASURES

August 15, 2017

China Will Regret India’s Entry Into Regional Forum

Given current tensions between China and India, New Delhi’s inclusion to the regional economic and security organization will cause headaches for Beijing, writes Derek Grossman.

July 25, 2017

How China is Tightening Its Grip on the South China Sea

China has used a divide and conquer tactic among Southeast Asian nations to expand its control of the South China Sea, Lindsey Ford and Murray Hiebert told Pacific Council members in the first installment of the Summer Teleconference Series.

July 5, 2017

On North Korea, Trump Should Follow Nixon’s China Example

Normalizing a nuclear North Korea offers the United States the opportunity to cauterize the nuclear risk by reducing tensions just as Nixon's normalization cauterized nuclear China in the 1970s, writes Bennett Ramberg.

June 8, 2017

A War Between China and the United States? It’s Possible

No one wants war between China and the United States, but it is still a distinct possibility, Dr. Graham Allison told Pacific Council members in a discussion on how the two nations can avoid conflict.

June 1, 2017

How America and China Could Stumble to War

War between the United States and China is not inevitable, but it is possible, writes Graham Allison. China’s disruptive rise creates conditions in which accidental, otherwise inconsequential events could trigger a large-scale conflict.

May 8, 2017

The U.S., Japan, and South Korea Must Align on North Korea

Even as the United States and her Pacific allies coalesce around a shared belief that new measures must be taken with regard to North Korea, mutual mistrust and diverging priorities make it harder to choose a path forward, writes Brian Moore.

May 3, 2017

Technology, Not Trade, Will Affect Jobs in U.S., South Korea

How will automation impact the economic relationship between South Korea and the United States? Yong Suk Lee explains how new technologies affect labor more than trade.

May 2, 2017

U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement is Mutually Beneficial

South Korea and the United States should keep their mutually beneficial free trade agreement in place, experts told guests of the Pacific Council and the Korea Foundation during the SeouLA Forum.

April 27, 2017

Climate Risk and Opportunity in South Korea

South Korea has much to gain by taking on a leadership role on building a low-carbon future—and even more to lose by standing by and watching, writes Kate Gordon.

April 17, 2017

Trump’s Tweets About North Korea Make Bad Matters Worse

The best option for the situation on the Korean Peninsula is a combination of further sanctions and intense, boring, frustrating diplomacy, not more tweeting or war, writes Nina Hachigian.

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