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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

May 20, 2021

CONTINUING OUR COLLABORATION ON FOREIGN REPORTING WITH USC

For a third year, we teamed up with Philip Seib, a long-time Pacific Council member and renowned faculty member at Annenberg, for a graduate-level class on foreign reporting, writes Justin Chapman.

June 5, 2020

THE EDUCATION OF AN IDEALIST: A CONVERSATION WITH AMB. POWER

Ambassador Samantha Power spoke with Ambassador Nancy Rubin about the global crisis of the pandemic and how values-based leadership—especially from the United States—is a necessary part of the solution.

June 4, 2020

WHAT DOES WASHINGTON WANT FROM CHINA?

Pique is not a policy, writes Christopher Hill.

June 1, 2020

HONG KONG DEMOCRATS MAY FEEL 'EXIT' IS THEIR ONLY OPTION

While Beijing’s most recent threat to Hong Kong will likely end most vestiges of the “one country, two systems” policy, the Special Administrative Region appeared to have already arrived at a critical juncture in its political decline, write Brandon Alexander Millan and Joel S. Fetzer.

May 15, 2020

YUKIO OKAMOTO, FORMER COUNCIL DIRECTOR: AN APPRECIATION

Abraham Lowenthal remembers Yukio Okamoto, a distinguished Japanese diplomat, trusted senior advisor to successive prime ministers of his country, influential international consultant, and a long time Board member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, who recently passed away from COVID-19.

May 13, 2020

THE WORLD IS HELPING AMERICANS WHO DON'T ALWAYS SEE IT

Cities and states are using international support to cope. They need to plan for global partnership to recover, writes Heather Hurlburt.

May 11, 2020

FROM JAPANESE INCARCERATION TO COVID: THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

The Pacific Council and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) recently hosted a discussion with John Tateishi, author of Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations, in conversation with Karen Ishizuka, chief curator at JANM.

May 6, 2020

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CRISIS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Experts discussed how COVID-19 is impacting developing countries on a recent webcast.

April 27, 2020

AI, GEOPOLITICS, AND THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION

Experts discussed artificial intelligence's potential to disrupt geopolitics on a recent teleconference.

April 21, 2020

Trump’s Xenophobia Will Exacerbate Crisis

The president has repeatedly chosen opportunism over public health, but crises should not be used for promoting restrictionist policies against immigrants, write Eliane Fersan and Kai Golden.

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