My Summary Comment for the September 24, 2022 Event to Honor Chien-Shiung Wu by Da Hsuan Feng on September 25, 2022
To commemorate Madame Chien Shiung Wu’s (吳健雄) 110 Birthday, Nanjing University Alumni Association United States (USAAUS) hosted the first C.S. Wu Global Online Symposium, on September 24th, 2022. During WWII, Madame Wu as a physicist at Columbia University participated in…
You don’t really love America if you hate half the people in it – Bill Maher, September 23, 2022
Sometimes it takes a comedian to make some sense of what is going on in the political arena. What attracted my attention to this episode is the thought provocation punchline: You don’t really love America if you hate half the…
US is becoming a ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality – as published in the Conversation, September 15, 2022.
This provocative piece is published by the Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of experts for the public good. According to its website, it publishes trustworthy and informative articles written by academic experts for the…
Global Thinkers Special: What does China want? – CGTN
This program is about 45 minutes long and is produced by the China Global Television Network, the international division of state media outlet China Central Television (CCTV), headquartered in Beijing. What does China want? It’s a question posed by many in the West, including politicians,…
Several articles and books on living up to our standards of “American Exceptionalism” – We are trying hard but we are not there!
Through the publishing of this blog, I have gotten to know Professor Da Hsuan Feng quite well. DH as some of his friends call him is a gentleman and a scholar with an impressive circle of friends. One of his…
A Friendship That Transcends Time and Politics, Xiaoyan Zhang, Ph.D., August 2022
Our friend, Xiaoyan Zhang, Ph.D. (aka Dr. XYZ) shares with us this article about the Flying Tigers and his father’s lasting friendship with the 14th air force under command of General Chennault during WWII. This is a moving piece about…
Confessions of a disgruntled Chinese American by George Koo, August 23, 2022.
Our good friend, George Koo published this opinion piece in Asian Times explaining why he is disgruntled with the status of our country. I admire his courage in making such an honest and bold statement at a time when Anti-Asian/Chinese…
Democracy in our country is still “Young” and “Tenuous”
As Americans, we like to claim ourselves as the citadel and the champions of democracy. We have fought many wars in that name since WWII – notably, the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1955-1975), and many recent conflicts in…
From Watergate to January 6th – How much has America changed?
If I were a political science professor, I would surely assign my students to compare and contrast two constitutional crises that happened in recent times – the Watergate and the January 6th incident. On June 17, 1972, a political crime,…
Attempts to bully nations into taking sides in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is unacceptable – Naledi Pandor, South African Foreign Minister
“Attempts to bully nations into taking sides in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is unacceptable, Naledi Pandor, South African Foreign Minister said on August 10, 2022, as she accused certain countries in Europe of taking a patronizing attitude towards Africa.” Blinken…