https://www.scmp.com/rss/507370/feed Bernd Debusmann Jr. is a freelance journalist based in Washington, DC. He previously spent six years covering the Middle East, most recently as Deputy Editor of Dubai-based Arabian Business magazine, and prior to that worked for Reuters in Mexico City and New York. He is particularly focused on US foreign policy, immigrant communities and national security. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com California-born Japanese-American Fred Korematsu was just 23 years old when he resisted being sent to an internment camp in 1942. He was convicted for violating military orders, sentenced to five years’ probation and was interned with his family in Utah. It was not until 1983 his case was reopened and overturned. These days, Korematsu is remembered as a notable civil rights campaigner and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest award that can be bestowed to a civilian. But... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3133569/amid-wave-violence-against-asian-americans-some-push-more-their-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3133569/amid-wave-violence-against-asian-americans-some-push-more-their-history?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 May 2021 17:30:07 +0000 When US President Joe Biden took office a month ago, his proposed cabinet was already being praised as the most diverse in American history. It would include, among others, the nation’s first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg; its first Native American cabinet secretary in Deb Haaland; and its first African-American secretary of defence in Lloyd Austin. Those postings come in addition to the election, along with Biden, of Vice-President Kamala Harris – the daughter of an Indian... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3122849/no-room-table-advocates-rebuke-biden-not-naming-any-asian-american?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3122849/no-room-table-advocates-rebuke-biden-not-naming-any-asian-american?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:37:26 +0000 When Georgia resident Baoky Vu first moved to the Atlanta area a few years after his family fled the war-torn South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in 1975, he remembers seeing few people who looked like him. “In fact, in Georgia’s DeKalb county, you had maybe two or three Asian families in 1978. When I went to high school in Gwinnett county, which is now part of metro Atlanta, there were fewer than 10 Asian-Americans out of a student body of 1,600,” recalls Vu. The son of a South Vietnamese... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3115321/asian-americans-are-key-force-us-senate-run-elections-georgia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3115321/asian-americans-are-key-force-us-senate-run-elections-georgia?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Dec 2020 02:00:12 +0000 Bernd Debusmann Jr Bernd Debusmann Jr As Joe Biden prepares to take the reins in Washington, the stakes have never been higher for the US relationship with China and the rest of Asia. In the latest in a post-election series, Bernd Debusmann Jr explores the steps that advocates for Asian-Americans say should be taken to reduce the hostility that the Trump administration’s policies have encouraged. In theory, Valley Brook Tea is an unlikely place for a hate crime. The speciality tea store is located on a busy commercial avenue in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3113885/how-can-president-biden-change-narrative-asian-americans?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3113885/how-can-president-biden-change-narrative-asian-americans?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:00:14 +0000 Chinese-American neighbourhood patrols in New York and California are bracing for a spike in anti-Asian harassment and possible violence in the days leading up to the November 3 US presidential elections and what could be a turbulent aftermath, community activists say. While Chinese-Americans have faced racism throughout America’s history, researchers and activists assert that Sinophobia has surged as a result of US President Donald Trump’s inflammatory language – particularly in the wake of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3106905/amid-rising-xenophobia-chinese-american-communities-both-coasts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3106905/amid-rising-xenophobia-chinese-american-communities-both-coasts?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:39:07 +0000 Walking into the yet-to-open Chinese-American Museum in Washington, visitors are greeted with a simple message: “The Chinese-American story is an American story.” Located four blocks north of the White House, the museum hopes to tell the story of the Chinese-American experience, beginning with the first four recorded Chinese visitors who sailed to Baltimore aboard a merchant ship in 1785. “Chinese are not recent arrivals,” said the museum’s executive director, David Uy, himself a... https://www.scmp.com/society/amid-wave-sinophobia-new-us-museum-tells-chinese-american-story/article/3104542?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/amid-wave-sinophobia-new-us-museum-tells-chinese-american-story/article/3104542?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:36:18 +0000 Walking into the yet unopened Chinese-American Museum in Washington, visitors are greeted with a simple message on the wall: “The Chinese-American story is an American story.” Located in a five-storey Beaux Arts mansion four blocks north of the White House, the museum hopes to tell the story of the Chinese-American “experience”, beginning with the first four recorded Chinese visitors who sailed to the port of Baltimore aboard a merchant ship from Guangzhou in 1785. “Chinese are not recent... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3104452/new-us-museums-goal-show-how-chinese-americans-are-woven-nations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3104452/new-us-museums-goal-show-how-chinese-americans-are-woven-nations?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:40:20 +0000