From left, Laureen Hom, co-author of Transforming Orange County, and Mary Anne Foo, Orange County Asian Pacific Community Alliance director, look on as Sylvia Kim, Asian American Advancing Justice Orange County director, speaks at UC Irvine ... ... such as Native Hawaiians and Pacific..…

It plans to project its economic might through the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), which excludes China. ... It is actively wooing the region’s countries into closer political ties, hoping that its economic power will trump any political schisms; it is trying to consolidate its own..…