April 26, 2019
The binational community of El Paso and Juárez offers unique perspectives on art and immigration, writes Aaron Brooks.
April 19, 2019
Just as the U.S. digital copyright law inspired Europe to adopt safe harbors for online companies in the earliest days of the internet, Europe’s new copyright law may inspire Washington to rethink how and how much creative professionals are paid—including by social media titans—in a vastly different and richer digital economy, writes Justin Hughes in the Los Angeles Times.
April 24, 2019
Options are dwindling and time is running out for the United Kingdom to negotiate a deal to leave the European Union, experts told Pacific Council members in a teleconference on Brexit.
April 22, 2019
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.
April 17, 2019
While the United States and the European Union have disagreements about trade policy and business practices, they remain committed to partnership when it comes to security, U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland told Pacific Council members.
April 15, 2019
Less than a month after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting, the type of weapons used by the gunman are now banned under dramatic new legislation that has effectively rebuilt New Zealand’s gun laws overnight, reports Pacific Council member Ani Ucar and Andrew Potter for Vice News.
April 12, 2019
The Pacific Council has published our 2018 annual report, which tells the story of our impact over the past year—and yours.
The Pacific Council Mexico Initiative is focused on building stronger U.S.-Mexico ties at the citizen, institution, and state levels. We seek to take an approach to Mexico that reflects our geography, identity, and appreciation for the international policy interests of the United States.
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April 1, 2019
Read an article by Jaime Torres of El Diario about the Pacific Council's delegation to El Paso, Texas.
March 29, 2019
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.
