Media Mentions

The Digital Communication Network’s inaugural event in Sydney, Australia, will gather thought leaders, influencers, and digital professionals from across East Asia and the Pacific to examine how innovations, disruptions, and challenges to information systems are influencing business, politics, society, and the very fabric of daily lives. Digital leaders, representing a variety of fields including academia, […]

As leaders from 21 APEC member economies prepare to meet in San Francisco in November, we will explore APEC’s evolution over its three-decade-plus history to consider both its role and contributions in the Asia-Pacific region to date, as well as explore its challenges and relevance in the region going forward.  Is APEC still hitting its

The Chinese government tends to “bestow” pandas on “nations with whom China’s relations are on the upswing, as a form of soft power projection,” said Kurt Tong, a former high-ranking US diplomat and managing partner of the Asia Group consultancy.

“In that respect, given the current tenor of US-China relations it is not surprising that Chinese authorities are allowing panda contracts with US zoos to expire,” Tong said in an email to AFP.