How to Turn a Superpower into a Banana Republic

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US Hurts Itself by Blocking Nvidia's China Exports

Feeding China's addiction to Nvidia GPUs is the smart way ...

Let's Be Golden

How do you like being "yellow"? If you're like me, ...

Confessions of an Asian Male Adoptee

Raised a white boy, he had to become an Asian ...

The 80% Rule in Cold Prairie

The author learns not to let a mean-spirited minority define ...

Trump's Populist Pledges Fall to US Dependence on Foreign Labor

Heated pledges of stiff tariffs and mass deportations will prove ...

Asian American Media and Consciousness: History and Evolution

Way back in 1981, long before Goldsea or even a ...

Jeremy Lin Portrayed Prematurely As Unwanted Discard

The Lin-bashers are jumping the gun in their eagerness to ...

Missed Photo Ops

Tracks laid by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads ...

Obama, U.S. Drug Policy and Muslim Terrorism

As much as I admire President Obama as a leader ...

Thoughts for Sleepless Nights

They say all humans are genetically 99.95% identical. What? ...

China's Rising Testosterone Level and Its New Voice

The world will have to get used to hearing China's ...

Asian Killers, American Causes

The latest is Jiverly Wong shooting 13 in Binghamton, New ...

Sacred Sexuality

Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just ...

How Hallyu-wood Is Challenging Hollywood

Hallyu is a term coined in 1999 by a Beijing ...

Asian American Life 36 Years Later

Spotting Race Bores

Race bore" is a term commonly used to put down ...

The Next Korean War Is No Longer Unthinkable

Kim Jong-un has taken a possibly irreversible step toward making ...

Korematsu, Kim, Dorner and the Asian American Burden

Asian Americans are victims of the false perception that we ...

10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans

After years of sleep-deprivation, hobo chic and ramen dinners, you've ...

Recognizing China As America's Growth Engine

Americans are fretting about a 9.5% jobless rate that isn't ...

Brotherly Advice for Asian American Women

Hey, Asian women, I love you. But I gotta tell ...

The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up ...

Obama, China and an Emerging New Reality

Asian American Man to Man

Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright

My friend Michelle, who currently resides in New York, recently ...

Confessions of a Happy Asian American

Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of ...

Discarding Social Conditioning

You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a ...

Why Asian Americans Are Leading America's Cultural Evolution

An Wang, Amar Bose, Charles Wang, David Ho, Jerry Yang, ...

Last Best Opportunity for Empowering the UN

We may never have a better chance to empower the ...

American Clothes Make American Bodies

Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. ...

Finding Hope in the Small Stories of Human Progress

The headlines too often bury the really important stories of ...

Occupy Wall Street Presents China with Mao Moment

China's leadership may be taking comfort in the Occupy Wall ...

Rice Color, Skin Color and the New Cultural Color Code

In a whole-grain world Asian Americans are becoming the new ...

Going from Fat Superpower to Fit Superpower

Is there a future for a fat superpower in a ...

Time to Get a New Mirror

Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of ...

Jeremy Lin's Dark Night and Inevitable Dawn

Jeremy Lin is starring in an engrossing drama that has ...

Putting Tolerance Above Math and Science Skills

Let's stop focusing so much on math and science skills ...

Japan's Robot Strategy Offers Blueprint for Humanity

Japan's population growth rate peaked at about 2% back in ...

Asian Men and White Women: Missed Signals

The rap about us Asian guys is that white chicks ...

The Meteoric Rise of John Cho

Last week, the bluray version of Star Trek came out. ...

Season-Ending Notes: Asian Baseball Players in the News!

Baseball season has ended but there are still a couple ...

Interdependence Day: New Meaning for July 4th

Few Americans watching and setting off July 4th fireworks were ...

Why Shinzo Abe & Kim Jong-Un Are Going to Embrace

Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong-un see a summit as the ...

Xi Pivots to Russia to Counter Obama's Pivot to Asia

China's new leader hopes to put Beijing on a more ...

Unsticking Japan

I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in ...

End of the Pete Carroll Era

What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a ...

Psy Can Help Park Geun-Hye Lead S. Korea to Next ...

Psy's example can help S. Korea's new leader launch a ...

Confusion Befuddles American Voters

The time has come again for Barack Obama to awaken ...

The Race Factor in Asian American Life

An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to ...