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A new select committee on strategic competition with China means we can expect testimony about the threat Beijing poses to stream endlessly from congressional hearing rooms. This could have a deadly impact on ordinary Chinese and Asian-Americans.

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  • Zia was an early proponent of what was once a novel idea: that Americans with roots in Asia could unite as Asian-Americans to organise
  • She is also a champion of LGBTQ rights, spotlighting the intersection of being a lesbian with Chinese-American roots
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In response to recent bans like Florida’s, two Democrats in Congress offer legislation pre-empting any American state or territory that impedes property purchase based on one’s citizenship.

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Asian-American actor Michael Tow talks about denying his cultural identity as a child, surviving Hollywood, and the personal loss he shares with his character in Apple TV series City on Fire.

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Haoyang Yu, acquitted on 20 of 21 industrial espionage counts, argues the last should be tossed but judge dismisses his motion contending he had been unfairly singled out because of his ethnicity.

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Citing a threat from China, the governor moved to curb real estate purchases by Chinese nationals and ban Chinese apps from school and government servers.

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The termination of the US Justice Department’s China Initiative has not alleviated concerns in the Asian-American community that they are being racially profiled, conference panellists say.

Speakers at Committee of 100’s annual conference say difficulties are not only racist stereotypes, but also in organising the Asian-American and Pacific Island community politically.

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Community members are increasingly active politically, multilingual at home and more diverse economically than widely portrayed, study also reveals.

Billie R. Davis, 56, reportedly told police she attacked the young woman with a folding knife because it ‘would be one less person to blow up our country’.

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University of Melbourne lecturer Chris Lloyd said Chinese students would likely be ‘recalled’ amid a China-Taiwan war, and urged Australian universities to woo Indonesian, Indian students.

Eurasian actress, model and content creator Asha Cuthbert talks to Kate Whitehead about growing up ‘different’ in Hong Kong, confronting the haters and racists and becoming an LGBTQ role model.

The research by three leading UK universities found that more than one in three people from minority backgrounds have experienced racially motivated physical or verbal abuse.

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Anti-war group Code Pink highlights that frustration with status quo and recognition of high cost of conflict extend beyond seasoned China watchers.

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If confirmed, Su – who had a key role in averting rail strikes last year – would be the first Asian-American to serve on Biden’s Cabinet at the secretary level.

The billionaire called the media racist after a cartoonist he regularly engages with on Twitter faced blowback for encouraging white Americans to avoid black people.

Bret Harte’s 1870 poem The Heathen Chinee gained enormous popularity in America, crystallising anti-Chinese sentiment and becoming ‘the hallmark of the China exclusion movement’.

Recent attacks in which Asian-Americans were both victims and suspects have elicited a special pain and a search for answers within the community.

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New ranking member of House select committee tasked with monitoring Chinese Communist Party’s progress urges against ‘dangerous rhetoric’.

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Last year, Yelp removed more than 2,000 racist business reviews before they went online – a nearly tenfold jump over the year before. Many denigrated Asian-Americans and Asian-American-owned businesses.