Category Archives: Analysis

The US Seafood Market and Southeast Asia

By Ray Hervandi | Published: July 27, 2011

Southeast Asia is an increasingly important player in the US seafood market. Although stagnant fish stocks, growing demand for seafood products, and chronic overfishing are constraining mature fishery sectors, such as the United States’, the same trends are bringing about opportunities for countries with developing fishery sectors that can pick up the slack in the [...]

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It Takes Two: Imports Increase as US Trade with Asia Grows

By Grace Ruch | Published: July 25, 2011
US Imports from Top 15 Asia Pacific Markets, Value and Growth

In April of this year, the United States trade deficit sharply contracted 11%, due to a strong uptick in exports, a drop in foreign oil purchases, and a sharp reduction in automotive and auto parts imports as a result of the disasters in Japan in March. However, last week the US Department of Commerce announced [...]

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Fast and Furious: Asia-Pacific Fastest Growing Market for US Exports

By Grace Ruch | Published: June 13, 2011

In his weekly address prior to his State of the Union speech in which he pledged to double exports by 2014, President Obama focused on job growth through trade. “If we’re serious about fighting for American jobs and American businesses, one of the most important things we can do is open up more markets to [...]

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US-Southeast Asia Trade Triples over Last Two Decades

By Ray Hervandi | Published: May 24, 2011

Newly updated data from the Foreign Trade section of the US Census Bureau confirms that Southeast Asia, when taken as an entity, continues to be a major partner for US trade in goods. Over the last twenty years, US trade volume with Southeast Asia has tripled, from $45.9 billion in 1990 to $176 billion in [...]

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The Local Face of ASEAN: Census reports 3.5 million Southeast Asians in US

By Grace Ruch | Published: April 27, 2011
Source: US Census Bureau American Community Survey

The 2010 US Census data reveals an increasingly diverse demographic landscape in America, with Asians as the fastest growing racial-group in the past decade, we recently reported. People from the ten ASEAN nations contribute significantly to the Asian population in America according to the American Community Survey, a new nationwide survey by the US Census [...]

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US Census Reports 17.3 Million Asians in America

By Grace Ruch | Published: April 21, 2011
Monterey Park, California, outside of Los Angeles is considered the first of America's Asian-dominated "Ethnoburbs." Image by: New York Times, "Mapping America" application.

When US President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removing decades-long restrictions on admission and citizenship for immigrants from Asia, Asian-Americans made up only 0.5% of the total population.  Forty-five years later, the 2010 Census reveals a dramatically different American racial landscape. Today, 14.7 million identify as “Asian-alone,” comprising 4.8% of [...]

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Pakistan to replace Indonesia as country with largest Muslim population by 2030

By Aaron Siirila | Published: January 28, 2011

The world’s Muslim population is projected to grow at twice the rate of non-Muslims over the next 20 years, increasing by 35% to 2.2 billion people in 2030, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. However, the growth rate for Muslim populations over the next 20 years, projected at 1.5% annually, is [...]

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New students data: China grows by 30%

By Aaron Siirila | Published: November 29, 2010

International student enrollment in the United States in the 2009-10 academic year increased by a modest 3% from the previous year according to the Open Doors report by the Institute of International Education. The number of students from China increased by an impressive 30% from the previous year, surpassing India as the top source of [...]

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Clinton: “Renewed American leadership in Asia”

By Aaron Siirila | Published: November 4, 2010

US Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton called ASEAN a “fulcrum for the region’s emerging regional architecture” and declared US intentions to “sustain and strengthen America’s leadership in the Asia-Pacific region” in a speech co-hosted by the East-West Center on October 28 in Hawaii. Full video of the speech is available. One main theme of [...]

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Boom Times in U.S.-Southeast Asia Relations

By Satu Limaye | Published: October 28, 2010

By Satu Limaye. This was first posted on the Asia Foundation blog In Asia. These are boom times in U.S.-Southeast Asia relations. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton represents the United States at the 17th ASEAN Summit this week in Hanoi – the highlight of which is to be U.S. participation, for the first time ever, [...]

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