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Chinese Americans in New York vote, and brace for ‘long, drawn-out battle’ of election results
The China Project contributor Zijia Song visited polling locations in Chinatowns across New York City and followed up with voters for their thoughts about the election. This is what she found.
‘Asian people have American values’: The meaning of Trump’s Chinese-American support
Who are the Chinese Americans voting for Trump? They are successful entrepreneurs, devout Christians, proud Americans, vocal politicians — and an enigma to unpack.
Trump’s secret Chinese bank account revealed by New York Times
Trump International Hotels Management paid over $180,000 in taxes to the Chinese government from a local bank account from 2013 to 2015, and Trump himself has benefited financially from Chinese business connections in more recent years, the New York Times reported.
Trump is stoking nationalist fervor — in China
How the American president is cementing nationalism among Chinese youth.
Trump revives effort to shift blame for COVID-19 failures, calling the disease ‘Chinese Plague’
With less than four weeks until the election, Trump is again ramping up his efforts to blame China for his failure to contain the coronavirus. Polls indicate that voters will not buy this.
Confessions of a Chinese-American Trump voter
“Growing up in an authoritarian system, I regarded cynicism as part of life,” writes Connie Mei Pickart, who became an American citizen six years ago and voted in her first presidential election in 2016. “But in a democratic state, a cynical attitude has far-reaching consequences,” she adds — a lesson she learned the hard way.
Trump’s WeChat ‘ban’ is unconstitutional. A new lawsuit shows why
A group of Chinese-American attorneys recently filed a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order that threatens to ban transactions on the Chinese super app WeChat. A lawyer explains why Trump has little chance in court.
White privilege, American hegemony, and the rise of China
In China, the Trump administration sees a rising power that threatens American primacy. It has reacted the same way white nationalists are reacting to the Black Lives Matter movement: with belligerence and racist rhetoric.
U.S. and China to discuss trade, TikTok ‘in the coming days’
Washington and Beijing are expected to talk about the phase one trade deal soon, but the conversation will not be limited to trade.
Trump’s WeChat attack has lost him Chinese-American support
On August 6, President Trump issued an executive order to prohibit financial transactions involving WeChat — the Chinese app that helped him win the 2016 election.
After TikTok, Trump moves to attack WeChat. What’s next?
President Trump signed two executive orders, one reiterating that he wants TikTok banned (unless Microsoft buys it), and another launching a new attack against WeChat. Depending on how the WeChat order is implemented, it could have massive implications for the parent company, Tencent, and the future of the internet.
Anger rises in China over Trump’s ‘inconceivable’ treatment of TikTok
Chinese state media and businesspeople are outraged at Trump’s requirement that TikTok sell its U.S.-based operations. The China Daily called it “tantamount” to “an officially sanctioned ‘steal’ of Chinese technology,” while famous tech investor Kai-Fu Lee called it “inconceivable.”
The U.S. and China are on a lose-lose course
The U.S.-China relationship has survived obstacles and setbacks in the past. But today, amid high-level calls for both an economic and cultural decoupling, we have to consider what a rupture would look like — and its catastrophic consequences.
Trump gives TikTok 45 days to sell U.S. operations
After a few days of indecision, President Trump has settled on an ultimatum for TikTok: Either sell your U.S. operations to an American company in 45 days, or be banned. Microsoft is in negotiations to buy it, but there are many uncertainties.
After TikTok, what happens to internet freedom?
The meaning of internet freedom is changing. Under Trump, the U.S. seems set to tell China it was right to distrust foreign-owned social media apps.
Will Trump order Chinese owner to sell TikTok?
Will Washington force Chinese internet giant ByteDance to sell its globally popular video app TikTok to a U.S. company?
More pain than gain: How the U.S.-China trade war hurt America
Lost jobs. Sagging GDP. All in the name of “winning the deal” instead of doing what’s best for American competitiveness.
Fulbrighters speak out against cancellation of China program
More than 50 Americans had received Fulbright scholarships to research and teach in China and Hong Kong in 2020-21. They now won’t be able to, thanks to Trump’s misguided belief of who actually benefits from international exchange programs.
The next Trump travel ban: Chinese Communist Party members?
Under a draft presidential order, the Trump administration could bar all CCP members and their families — as many as 270 million Chinese people — from traveling to the U.S. The policy would be difficult to implement, and its benefits are unclear.
The absurdity of trying to sue China over COVID-19
Some U.S. lawmakers are trying to find ways to allow citizens and states to sue China over COVID-19. Perhaps they think scapegoating a country is easier than promoting sensible policies to combat the virus at home.
