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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.

Please note that all upcoming events will still appear at our main website, pacificcouncil.org, or by visiting the Activities menu above.

May 20, 2021

CONTINUING OUR COLLABORATION ON FOREIGN REPORTING WITH USC

September 17, 2020

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

September 5, 2019

Trade and Politics: Lessons from the Japan-Korea Conflict

The trade spat has driven home the danger of overreliance on Japanese imports—and not only for South Korea, writes Jongsoo Lee.

August 30, 2019

South and East China Seas: Is Military Conflict Likely?

The territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas hold geopolitical distinctions while carrying critical implications for U.S. interests, experts told Pacific Council members in the third installment of the 2019 Summer Teleconference Series.

August 7, 2019

Trade and Territory: An Explosive Combination in East Asia

Japan and South Korea must do all they can to defuse the recent tension between them, and the global community needs to be part of the solution, writes Jongsoo Lee.

August 2, 2019

Biggest Threat to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy? Washington

The success of Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy depends on continued forgiveness from allies and partners, writes Derek Grossman.

July 30, 2019

Uncertainty and Mistrust Cloud U.S.-China Trade Talks

Any U.S.-China trade deal will not be the end of the process but rather a temporary truce in what is increasingly looking like a much bigger struggle, experts told Pacific Council members in a teleconference.

July 9, 2019

DMZ Summitry and the Fall of the Korean Wall

The June 30 meeting between Trump, Kim, and Moon shows that North Korea’s transition to a “normal country” continues, writes Jongsoo Lee.

May 28, 2019

Rhodes: U.S. is Losing Influence, Credibility on World Stage

U.S. influence and credibility on the world stage has been diminished under the Trump administration, Ben Rhodes told students and Pacific Council members at a recent discussion at Pomona College.

May 24, 2019

Unblocking the North Korea Nuclear Impasse

Layered tangible security guarantees and a change of mindset by both the United States and North Korea offer the path forward to nuclear elimination, writes Bennett Ramberg.

April 22, 2019

US Policy on China: The Need for Pressure & Multilateralism

U.S. policy toward China should strongly emphasize pressure and deterrence, while acting multilaterally rather than unilaterally, experts said in the second installment of the Edgerton Series on Responding to a Rising China.

March 29, 2019

Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable China Policy

To avoid a breakdown in the crucially important U.S.-China bilateral relationship, the United States and China should seek negotiated solutions to priority issues whenever possible and erect prudent guardrails to keep the relationship from running further off the tracks, write Orville Schell, Susan Shirk, and Barry Naughton ahead of their discussion on April 1 as part of the Pacific Council’s Edgerton Series on Responding to a Rising China.

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