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"American Born Chinese" director Destin Daniel Cretton and star Daniel Wu spoke to Looper about portraying the mythology of the Monkey King in the new series.

senior U.S. officials in Washington and Beijing have underscored to their Chinese counterparts. In such unofficial visits in recent years, Tsai has met with members of Congress and Taiwanese-American ...

The omelet as most Americans know it is a French import. But cooks the world over have combined whipped eggs with cooked ingredients since at least the ancient Persians. And often, "omelets" from ...

Of course it would be better for Andrews to take some media. But would they do a good job, or would it be all ‘Chairman Dan’ and local political bullshit?
Sometimes minor events can be eloquent – a sign of the times and a demonstration of where we are at.
So it is that a visit by a provincial leader to the biggest trading partner of his province has become not only a news story, but the focus of innuendo and outrage.

Beijing has urged the US not to allow Tsai Ing-wen to transit through the US, saying it would be a ‘provocation’
The Chinese government has threatened retaliation if Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, meets the US House speaker this week, and urged the US not to let her transit through the country, saying it would be a “provocation”.
Tsai left Taiwan on Wednesday afternoon for a 10-day trip to visit Central American allies, Belize and Guatemala. The trip includes two stopovers, in New York on the way in, and Los Angeles on the way out. Tsai is expected to meet with the speaker, Kevin McCarthy in California, but there hasn’t been official confirmation.

Photo taken by Skyler Kim/The Daily Campus. On Saturday evening, the University of Connecticut’s Asian American Cultural Center hosted its annual “Asian Nite” at the Jorgensen Center for the ...

Instead, the lead dancers were a mixed-race American dancer and a Lebanese Canadian. It was a sad reminder of how appropriation and erasure take place in so many contexts. In the yoga world, South ...

Former US president tells Sydney audience that media coverage has helped exacerbate divisions and that we no longer have a ‘shared story’
The former US president Barack Obama has suggested that Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has led to greater polarisation in western societies through news coverage designed to “make people angry and resentful”.
Speaking to a capacity crowd of about 9,000 people at Sydney’s Aware Super Theatre on Tuesday night, Obama mixed childhood memories of transiting through Australia as a child with pointed observations about the current political discourse and the rise of China.

Last Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was questioned by lawmakers for five hours over the app's ability to operate independently of its Chinese parent ByteDance. The short-video app faces a potential ...

Also, a shake-up at Alibaba and a rare glimpse at a ruined city in Ukraine.