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Over 30 years of bridging the Pacific
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives is located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Our team conducts research on policy issues and builds relationships with universities and civil society organizations in the region. We hold international conferences and events and act as a resource facility for the university and the wider community on this important and diverse part of the world. Read more
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CAPI in the news
- “China’s zero-Covid policy will increasingly leave it — and Hong Kong, to the extent that it follows — isolated” - CAPI Director/Law Chair Victor V. Ramraj on mainland China as the exception to loosening covid restrictions in Asia | The New York Times
- CAPI China Chair Guoguang Wu on the "monkey trap" of Western capitalist greed in China, ahead of the US Democracy Summit | Voice of America (Chinese)
- “He is imposing his viewpoints to become the framework within which party elites make their consensus” - CAPI China Chair Guoguang Wu on Xi Jinping's drive to cement his ideology and position at the CCP's 6th plenum | Bloomberg Business
Recent major works
Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts (2020). Edited by CAPI Director Victor V. Ramraj
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (2020), the culminating volume of the Landscapes of Injustice Project, edited by Project Director and CAPI Senior Fellow Jordan Stanger-Ross
South Asian Migrations in Global History (2020). Edited by CAPI Senior Fellow Neilesh Bose
Globalization against Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph (2017); Chinese edition: 反民主的全球化 : 資本主義全球勝利之後的政治經濟學 (2020). By CAPI China Chair Guoguang Wu