Does that make Hawaii a good place to study relations between Asia Pacific and the United States?
A. Hawai’i is a great place to study. We’re enough back from this region to see it as a whole. And then you have that distance from the (Mainland) United States. In a sense, we’re more connected to this region than to the U.S. We’re more part of this community. Q. Back in January, you wrote an editorial for The Advertiser about your economic forecast for this region. You mentioned concern about the rapid growth of China, saying that its economy was booming at an almost dangerous annual growth rate of 8 percent or 9 percent. Were you on target? A. With China I feel more encouraged. They had a sizzling economy, but now they’re trying to slow things down a little … But there’s still a lot of issues there in terms of labor, the environment, health. They need to strengthen their hygienic standards. This is an incredibly important issue, as we saw with SARS and avian flu. That’s still a potentially dangerous problem. Q. Has the war in Iraq impacted this region in any way? A. Virtually all
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