WaPo goes deep on the near-killing last year of a Sikh American dissident in New York: An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India wapo.st/3w3RrgT

'I don’t think about vanity much. I look in the mirror, and if I think, 'I look young, that’s good enough.' Instead of wearing lipstick or rouge, I darken my eyebrows. I can express all kinds of things just with my eyebrows.' nytimes.com/2024/04/24/sty…

TSMC makes the world’s most advanced chips in Taiwan. Geopolitical shifts are pushing it to set up a new factory in the American desert.

It needs to bring its cutting-edge tech but also a notoriously harsh, military-style work culture to the U.S. 🧵
restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

FBI ‘did not intend negative impact’ of prosecuting Chinese academics with ties to Beijing under China Initiative scmp.com/news/china/dip…

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California set up a reparations task force in 2020 to study the generational effects of slavery & propose specific policy ideas for restitution.

Former ALC ED Don Tamaki is the only AAPI member on the taskforce - read about his experience.
✍️ Amy Qin
nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/…

Really important and nuanced article by Amy Qin that shows how solidarity can change over time/history/conditions, with an emphasis on Japanese American communities.

nytimes.com/2024/04/18/us/…

Don Tamaki helped get redress for Japanese Americans. He says serving on the CA reparations task force transformed his view on racism in the US.
“I thought I knew something about US history,” he told me. 'I realized..I really didn’t know a whole lot.'
nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/…

My latest story: War in Gaza Causes Surprising Rift Within Japanese American Group nytimes.com/2024/04/18/us/…

This story was sparked by a video I came across one tired night on the Beijing subway two years ago, discussing 'zero-dollar shopping' . The term is fraught with racism and political misinformation, underscoring how easily misinformation can distort people's perceptions.

Dinh Q. Lê, an acclaimed Vietnamese artist who showed how his nation’s collective consciousness had been transformed by conflict and the loss of history, has died at 56. artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Incredible project from San Francisco Chronicle using recently released census data among other sources - Mass incarceration devastated S.F. Japantown. For the first time, we know how much
sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

In the 2000s, Chen Guangcheng became a global icon of freedom and democracy; a few years later, we find him among US MAGA fanatics. A new podcast examines Chen's trajectory and wonders: how could this happen? A conversation with show cohost Yangyang Cheng.madeinchinajournal.com/2024/04/04/dis…

At a Long Beach pro-democracy rally, Cambodians grapple with their country’s political past and future latimes.com/california/sto…

Painful to watch. Chinese working class’s plight in a nutshell. A delivery man was stopped after running a red light and hitting a person. He broke down and kept hitting his head with a helmet: “[I’m] running late,” (which means penalty by delivery app.)

Wanted in South Korea: Imperialism-Free Cherry Blossoms nytimes.com/2024/03/29/wor…

Shohei Ohtani’s Arrival Brings Hope and Nostalgia Home to Little Tokyo nytimes.com/2024/03/31/us/… by Jill Cowan

Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions & attacking President Biden ahead of the election in Nov, according to researchers and govt officials. nytimes.com/2024/04/01/bus…

Thank you to colleagues from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, The New Yorker, PBS and the many others who showed their support for Evan Gershkovich by reading his work over the course of 24 hours. We'll keep telling Evan's story. Until he can tell his own. #IStandWithEvan

In 1939, a Black couple rented a CA home to a Chinese American family when others would not. Now, members of that family are donating house sale proceeds to Black students. nytimes.com/2024/03/14/us/…