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ASEAN is a Growing Market for US Pork Exports

by Alex Forster on Jul 15,2013
Also featured in: Asean, Japan, South Korea, China
New trade data published last week by the US Department of Agriculture indicates that US pork exports are on the rise in the ASEAN region. This is particularly good news, as exports to Japan, China and South Korea are currently on the decline.

Strategic Implications of TPP: Answering the Critics

by Ellen Frost on Jul 10,2013
Also featured in: Asia, Asean, Japan, South Korea, Australia, China
Far from thwarting Asian regionalism, TPP merely adds a new overlay. It gives ASEAN an additional incentive to achieve its goal of an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015. It has also set a major new pan-Asian grouping in motion.

Sports and Sports Diplomacy Bring Allies Closer Together

by Alex Forster on Jun 21,2013
Financially and culturally, Korea’s sporting influence in the US is significant. Any team that signs a Korean player to its roster sees merchandise sales in Korea soar and is guaranteed to see an increase in broadcast licensing requests from Korean sports...

Virginia Increasingly Looks to China as an Export Market

by Erika Solem on Jun 18,2013
Also featured in: Asia, China
Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia has been proactively looking to China as an export market for Virginia’s agricultural products, a subject that we have previously highlighted.

ASEAN Economic Ministers Embark on Three-Day U.S. Roadshow

by Evan Roe on Jun 12,2013
Also featured in: Asia, Asean
Economic ministers from the 10 ASEAN member-states, along with Deputy Secretary-General for the ASEAN Economic Community Lim Hong Hin, are visiting the United States from June 10 to June 14, for events in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C.

Promoting Standards Harmonization in the Fight Against Climate Change

by Llewelyn Hughes on May 15,2013
Llewelyn Hughes, recent Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that “The clean energy innovation agenda announced by the US and Japanese governments in their Shared Vision for the Future should retain a focus on how to better...

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