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Democrats urge House, Senate leadership to halt revival of Trump-era China Initiative “It would be both a misallocation of resources and a backsliding for civil rights to restart the China Initiative,” a letter from Democratic lawmakers to congressional leadership said.   By Kimmy Yam U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Rep. […]

In more closely aligning with the U.S. military in the Pacific today, Canada is positioning itself in opposition to the Indigenous Pacific, increasing the risks of war, and courting environmental catastrophe.  by John Price & Satoko Oka Norimatsu Last month, Global News broadcast a news item from Okinawa, Japan, in which Indigenous Okinawans recounted the

Having embraced and even amplified the Trump-inspired ‘evil China’ narrative, Canada is now left holding the bag. Even worse, our ‘China Panic’ is having negative impacts on universities and military policy in Asia and the Pacific.  by John Price China’s President Xi Jinping, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden, right, pictured Nov. 15, 2023, at

Click for PDF https://youtu.be/DL4PEfHXEC0 Geopolitical tensions and strategic competition between the United States and China have increasingly influenced the investment landscape in recent years, implicating established regulatory frameworks such as that of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), as well as driving non-traditional government actors to take action.  Recently, plans to

by Edward Wong and Amy Qin https://youtu.be/NfqbXkEOVYA Tina Wong, Vice President representing the interests of Foreign Service officers at the American Foreign Service Association, in Washington, Dec. 21, 2023. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times) When Thomas Wong set foot in the United States Embassy in Beijing over the summer for a new diplomatic posting, it

  Editorial Note Elected officials and community leaders are gathering at the Torch of Friendship in Miami on December 16th from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM to oppose unconstitutional legislation, such as SB 264 and SB 846, targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPl) and other communities. They are rallying against property bans, penalties, and

  Editorial Note Elected officials and community leaders are gathering at the Torch of Friendship in Miami on December 16th from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM to oppose unconstitutional legislation, such as SB 264 and SB 846, targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPl) and other communities. They are rallying against property bans, penalties, and

To address barriers that racialized women with non-native accents experience in the Canadian workplace, we need to understand what kinds of bias they face. (Shutterstock) by Ivona Hideg, Samantha Hancock, and Winny Shen   Immigrants are critical to the Canadian economy, but their talents are under-utilized due to language and accent discrimination, as immigrants often

By Wesley Wark   The white-hot urgency which once attended the issue of creating a foreign interference registry (sometimes impolitely referred to as a “foreign agent” registry) seems to have vanished from political and media agendas. That may not be a bad thing. Complex issues are rarely well solved by such insistent drumbeats. Creating a

By Tylor Anderson   On Nov 15, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, Minister Mary Ng stated that the resumption of trade talks with India hinges on their cooperation in investigating the killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil. The incident, occurring on June 18 in a Sikh temple