Biden, China’s Xi Jinping Hold First Call in Months
Optimism that US and China could find ways to improve their relationship and work together on issues of global concern, including the Covid 19 pandemic.
Author Archives: Lucille Lee
Biden Wants a Show of Unity Against China:Shirk
Biden wants a show of unity between US and the G7 countries with China.
Biden’s new China doctrine
America will work with China in areas of common interest, like climate change, but counter its ambitions elsewhere.
China Says It Has Ended Poverty. Is That True?
Shifting poor people into cities can also be a way of reducing rural poverty, but it can come at the cost of increased urban poverty
Conversation With Evan Osnos: Joe Biden, Asia and ‘What Matters Now’
China is not an enemy of the United States.
Migrant Workers Behind China’s Economic Miracle Are Miserable
China’s cities are becoming more and more hostile to the people on whose backs they were built, and the migrants are not feeling the gains of the government’s promise.
Charts that show how Deng Xiaoping unleashed China’s pent-up capitalist energy in 1978
Deng Xiaoping said “We need large numbers of pathbreakers who dare to think, explore new ways and generate new ideas.”
Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ’s China Initiative
The name of the DOJ/FBI/CIA policy “China Initiative” is itself a form of “racial profiling”.
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the U.S.
Between 2000 and 2019, Asian population in the U.S. grew 81%, from roughly 10.5 million to a record 18.9 million.
The Impact of Individuals
Asian Americans have contributed to many different disciplines in the US.