What You Haven’t Heard About APEC View on Olelo Net Manu Kai’ama moderates a discussion about APEC, Hawai’i, and the negative effects of globalization with Jon Osorio, Professor of Hawaiian History at the University of Hawai’i, Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and Chair for Pua Mohala I Ka Po, and Victor Minotti, director of the...
How Does APEC Benefit or Harm Hawaii and other Pacific Islands? download pamphlet The impact of the APEC forum will provide Hawaii’s business and finance community with some economic gains, but it will do so at the expense of long-term environmental consequences while furthering economic disparities. Behind the friendly appearance of its website and...
Act 55–DLNR’s Public Land Optimization Plan: PLOP, Colonialism 4.0 Sneak-Attack Today, July 1st, 2011, Act 55 goes into effect in Hawaii, an act that gives the State of Hawaii, through the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), a new for-profit entity directed by DLNR, the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT),...
Vietnam has called on the US and other nations to help resolve the escalating territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, in a move likely to anger Beijing, which opposes what it sees as outside interference. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, which also borders on the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia...
The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPPA) was signed in 2005 between Chile, New Zealand, Brunei and Singapore, which is considered a “pathfinder” agreement initiated by APEC, and will likely be signed in Honolulu in Nov. 2011 by the US, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia…possibly Canada, Peru, Japan and other Pacific Rim countries. I recently asked a...
Colonialism 4.0 In November 2011, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be holding their meeting here. On the agenda is the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). To be clear, TPP is not an APEC initiative. However, it is considered a pathfinder for the proposed Free-Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), which...