NEWSLETTER / November 5, 2020
The Pacific Council’s biweekly Newsletter shares international affairs commentary and analysis by our members and experts plus news from the Council and recaps of our recent events.
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COMMENTARY
Tim Ridout, writer

If we want to convince American voters that a globalized world is in their interest, we have to make a better effort to explain why it is relevant to their circumstances.
Haroon Azar, a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

Any final outcome from the peace talks between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan must honor the sacrifices of Americans and Afghans, as well as the integrity of the Afghan constitution, the ideal of representative government, and the belief that all Afghans deserve equal consideration and treatment under the law
Les Lo Baught, Jr., president of E Cubed Optimizers LLC

Individuals, communities, companies, and nations should seriously examine their own resiliency in regards to climate change and future pandemics.
Abraham Wagner, national security expert

For the United States and Israel, the most serious security concern in Syria remains the continued Iranian involvement.
Col. Todd Schmidt, Ph.D., Director (J5) for Plans, Policy, and Allied Integration in the U.S. Army’s Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense

Achieving a healthy rebalance in civil-military relations requires rebalanced investment in competing institutions and elements of national power.
Luke Matthews, Ph.D., senior social scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation

Failure to address the societal problems revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic could be a failure to learn the meta-lessons from this crisis.
Kate Jiang, international team lead for China at Cedars-Sinai, and Heitham Hassoun, vice president and international medical director at Cedars-Sinai

The medical device market is experiencing a changing landscape as players from emerging economies join the competition, and this will only be accelerated with the global pandemic.
EVENT VIDEOS + RECAPS
Missed our Culture Club discussion with the "Immigration Nation" filmmakers? Watch the conversation at the link below, and tune into the docuseries on Netflix. After hearing from viewers who wanted to help the families featured in the docuseries, the filmmakers set up a GoFundMe. Learn more about the needs of immigrant families and contribute to the cause here.
Watch the latest installment of the Edgerton Series on Responding to a Rising China, featuring Dr. Geoffrey Garrett, dean of the USC Marshall School of Business and former president of the Pacific Council, on how the United States should balance competition and collaboration with China, the prospects for economic decoupling, and the state of bilateral trade.
The Pacific Council recently hosted a discussion with H.E. Dr. Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirate’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, on the recent normalization of relations, the state of the region, and U.S.-UAE relations.
Dan Schnur of UC Berkeley and USC and Sonja Diaz of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative discussed what to expect in the days after the U.S. presidential election.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, November 12 / 11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. PT / Open to the public

The next installment of the Edgerton Series on Responding to a Rising China, on what an increasingly forceful China means for the United States and Taiwan.
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