I want to bring your attention to a series of short videos “Asian Americans Building America” published by the Asia Society. In response to the rise in racist and xenophobic attacks against Asians in the United States, the Asia Society launched Asian Americans Building America, a weekly interview series featuring… Read More »AABA (Asian Americans Building America) – Short Videos by The Asia Society!
America’s great because we’re diverseWe hailed from every corner of our universe!Some are natives with origins right hereEuropeans arrived to breathe the free air! Some were uprooted from AfricaThey’re still urging us to be more fair!Some came here looking for goldBut ended up working on the railroad! Some came as… Read More »All of Us Belong Right Here!
Ken Hammond is a professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State University. He lived in Beijing from 1982-87 and is an expert on Chinese history and fluent in Mandarin. “He is currently associate editor of the Journal of Chinese History published by Cambridge University Press, and… Read More »Ken Hammond: The West’s Failure to Understand China’s History!
In a recent Opinion Column published by the South China Morning Post, Tom Plate a Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University Asia Media International Centre, states that: Former California governor Jerry Brown has turned his attention towards trying to improve US-China relations in the name… Read More »Jerry Brown: US-China relations need ‘planetary realism’ to avoid geopolitical and ecological apocalypse
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) had many honorary nicknames including “the First Lady of Physics”, “the Chinese Madame Curie”, and the “Queen of Nuclear Research”. She was a Chinese American experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the research of radioactivity. Dr. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop… Read More »Honoring Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and her Profound Contributions to American Science
In this YouTube Video published by the Asia Society on March 23, 2022, Kevin Rudd explained how a war between the US and China can be avoided in an interview with Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. This video is an hour and 12 minutes long… Read More »Kevin Rudd on How To Avoid a US – China War through Managed Strategic Competition
March 16, 2022 – Statement on the One-Year Anniversary of the Atlanta Massacre Elk Grove, California – The League of California Cities Asian Pacific Islander (API) Caucus issued the following statement in response to the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta massacre that took place on March 16, 2021. Today marks… Read More »March 16, 2022 – Statement on the One-Year Anniversary of the Atlanta Massacre
As we look into the US-China Relationship, we see the disconnect between the general US population and the view of the experts. According to Pew Research, up to 77% of the US population has an unfavorable view of China. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/ According to “experts” such as the Asia Society Policy Institute… Read More »The Avoidable War: An Alternative Future for U.S.-China Relations
My friend Professor Da Hsuan Feng wrote this on March 25, 2022. Joel Bloomberg’s Recent Report of the Myth of China’s “Debt-Trap Diplomacy” by Da Hsuan Feng, March 25, 2022 This morning when I woke up, I saw in the social media publicizing a video by the Bloomberg News with… Read More »Bloomberg’s Recent Report of the Myth of China’s “Debt-Trap Diplomacy”
