In this paper we document the growing importance of intra-East Asian trade of parts and components. Our empirical analysis shows that FDI does play an important and independent or exogenous role in facilitating the trade of parts and components in East Asia. This is true for aggregate FDI as well as FDI from individual countries, including investment from the United States, Japan and South Kore...

Business groups played an important role in the economic development of East Asian countries. Yet business groups in East Asia face an uncertain future. Following the Asian Crisis, foreign creditors and investors have demanded that business groups have more transparent operations and stronger corporate governance. At the same time, as governments in East Asia have loosened trade barriers, busin...

Diplomacy always reflects underlying philosophical concepts of different theories of government and of international relations. In order to understand the diplomatic history of East Asia, one must understand the prevailing world views of the major powers involved. It seems to me that in the modern period, say 1600 to the present, it is possible to discern a number of perceptions which are respo...

About the East-West Center The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education, a...

Rapid growth in East Asia (despite the 1997-98 crises) has been unique as it is clustered so intensively only in that particular region. The flying-geese model of industrial upgrading is applied to the emergence of Pax-Americanaled growth clustering. The high propensity of the U.S. to transplant manufacturing overseas, Japan’s roles of structural intermediator and capacity augmenter, and catchi...

Estimating CO2 concentration during the growing season from MODIS and GOSAT in East Asia Meng Guo, Jiawei Xu, Xiufeng Wang, Hongshi He, Jing Li & Li Wu To cite this article: Meng Guo, Jiawei Xu, Xiufeng Wang, Hongshi He, Jing Li & Li Wu (2015) Estimating CO2 concentration during the growing season from MODIS and GOSAT in East Asia, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36:17, 4363-4383, DOI:...

Severe dermatophyte infection is rare in immunocompetent adults. Recently cases have been described in travelers returning from South East Asia (Luchsinger et al., 2015) [1]. These may be sexually transmitted and can have permanent sequelae. We describe the first reported case of Majocchi's granuloma (MG) in an Australian returned traveler and its subsequent transmission via sexual contact. Bot...

The Regional Workshop on National Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention in East Asia and the Pacific was organised for strengthening the capabilities of States Parties in East Asia and the Pacific to nationally implement obligations and additional agreements stemming form the BTWC, and to support the CBM process in the region. The workshop was hosted by the Government of the Phili...

Objective Enterovirus epidemics, especially affecting young children, have occurred in South-East Asia every year. If the epidemic periods are inter-correlated among different areas, early warning signals could be issued to prevent or reduce the severity of the later epidemics in other areas. In this study, we integrated the available surveillance and weather data in East Asia to elucidate poss...