| Producer | 1990 Institute “Beyond the Conversation Webinar” on May 27, 2021 |
| Overview |
This panel was presented by the 1990 Institute and the University of Southern California U.S.-China Institute. At this moment, Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the U.S. The future of this group will be important to America’s leadership in business and trade, in science and technology, and as a global power. The response of our government to the rise of China as a superpower has had repercussions on Asian Americans, who have contributed to America’s global competitiveness. Speakers: Gordon H. Chang: Senior Associate Vice Provost and Professor of Humanities, Stanford University Clay Dube (Moderator): Director of the USC U.S.-China Institute Margaret K. Lewis: Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law Peter Leroe-Muñoz: General Counsel, SVP, at Silicon Valley Leadership Group 00:00 Introduction by Grace Yu (Vice Chair of the 1990 Institute) 02:25 Clay Dube, Moderator 8:39 Introduction to Gordon H. Chang 10:18 Gordon H. Chang 22:06 Introduction to Margaret Lewis 23:38 Margaret Lewis 32:33 Introduction to Peter Leroe-Muñoz 33:57 Peter Leroe-Muñoz 41:40 Discussion: How the U.S. can be more confident and less fearful and the cost of fear 52:31 Discussion: How to talk about U.S.-China relations while not adding to the demonization of China and Asian Americans 59:27 Margaret Lewis on perceptions 1:02:54 Discussion: Benefiting from cooperation and reducing risk 1:10:10 Closing Remarks |
| Publish Date: | May 27, 2021, Updated on June 4, 2021 |
| Reference Materials |
Watch: Looking At The U.S. Justice Department’s China Initiative, by USC U.S.-China institute, 2021 Scientists in the Crosshairs: How to Avoid getting snared in the U.S. crackdown on ‘China Ties’, a video by SupChina, November 10, 2020 Visa Restrictions & Lawsuits: Chinese students under fire, comments by Frank Wu, President of Queens College, NYC, for U.S.-China-Insight, a National Committee on US-China Relations (NCUSCR) program, July 15, 2020 High Stakes for Higher Education, an NCUSCR webinar featuring Frank Wu discussing the impact the coronavirus and the U.S. Department of Justice’s China Initiative will have on higher education and the future of Chinese students in the United States, July 1, 2020 The Human and Scientific Costs of the “China Initiative”, APAPA, A four-part webinar on the China Initiative by American Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA), 2020-2021 Listen: Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ’s China Initiatives, Sinica Podcast, May 13, 2021 Ryan Hass on his new book, ‘Stronger’, Sinica Podcast, March 25, 2021 Was the U.S. sleeping through the China rise?, The World, June 5, 2020 Read: Gang Chen’s case should be the end of the DOJ’s ‘China Initiative,’ by Margaret K. Lewis, published on SupChina Foreign Affairs, January 26, 2021 Information About the Department Of Justice’s China Initiative and a Compilation of China-Related Prosecution Since 2018 | Department Of Justice 2021 The Global AI Talent Tracker, by MacroPolo, the in-house think tank of the Paulson Institute America’s got AI Talents: US’ Big Lead in AI research is Built on Importing Researchers , the report by MacroPolo, the in-house think tank of the Paulson Institute, June 9, 2020 Letter to President-Elect Joe Biden regarding the China Initiative, organized by Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Brennan Center for Justice, and APA Justice, January 5, 2021 One lesson the U.S. can learn from China to improve its technology development, Brookings Institution article about learning from the Chinese about improving competitiveness in the technology area, January 19, 2021 8 Groundbreaking Contributions by Asian Americans Through History, History Channel, March 31, 2021 The Sino-American Race for Technology Leadership, by Ferial Ara Saeed, published on War on the Rocks & Texas National Security Review, April 23, 2021 Book: The Scientist and the Spy: A true Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage, by Mara Hvistendahl, published on February 4th, 2020 by Riverhead Books |
| Teacher Resources |
The Rise of AI in China | PBS learning Media (three part series) Grades 9-12 The Impact of Technology | PBS Learning Media (two-part series) Grades 9-12 Choosing a STEM career | PBS Learning Media Grades 6-8, 9-12 U.S.-China Trade Tensions | Choices Program, Brown University McCarthyism | Asian American Advancing Justice Lesson Plan, Grades 7-12 |
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Book recommendby Margaret Lewis: Stonger, by Ryan Hass, published on March 9, 2021 by Yale University Press. Excerpt description on amazon.com: “…Hass makes the case that the United States will have greater success in outpacing China economically and outshining it in questions of governance if it focuses more on improving its condition at home than on trying to impede Chinese initiatives. He argues that the task at hand is not to stand in China’s way and, in the process, turn a rising power into an enemy but to renew America’s advantages in its competition with China.” Book recommend by Gordon H. Chang: The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of Alien in America, by Beth Lew-Williams, published on February 26, 2018 by Harvard University Press. Excerpt description on amazon.com: “…By locating the origins of the modern American alien in this violent era, Lew-Williams recasts the significance of Chinese exclusion in U.S. history. As The Chinese Must Go makes clear, anti-Chinese law and violence continues to have consequences for today’s immigrants. The present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the “heathen Chinaman.” |
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