Thursday, July 11, 2019

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asia policy officials
-Kurt Michael CampbellAOCNZM (born August 27, 1957[1]) is an American diplomat and businessman, who formerly served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He is the chairman and CEO of The Asia Group, LLC,[2] which he founded in February 2013.He was previously the chief executive officer and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a national security think tank launched in January 2007.[3] He also served as director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the chairman of the editorial board of the Washington Quarterly, and was the founder and principal of StratAsia, a strategic advisory company focused on Asia. Prior to co-founding CNAS, he served as senior vice president, director of the International Security Program, and the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.On June 26, 2009, Campbell was confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his last day in office was February 8, 2013.
  • 坎貝爾與台灣地區領導人蔡英文認識達25年,據報每次蔡英文前往美國,都會拜訪對方。坎貝爾在去年12月一場探討台灣議題的研討會上便指出,美國在遵循《台灣關係法》以外,亦需尋求機會擴大美台往來;同時表示美國「挺台但不反中」,期望在特定議題上與中國發展建設性關係,必須鼓勵台海和平對話,才符合各方戰略利益。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2021/01/14/a16-0114.pdf
  • Wife Lael Brainard (born January 1, 1962) is an American economist who has served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2014. She previously served as the United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2010 to 2013. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Randall G. Schriver is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs in the U.S. government. He was nominated by president Donald Trump, confirmed by the Senate on December 20, 2017, and sworn in on January 8, 2018.Various media outlets have described Schriver as a critic of China and a supporter of Taiwan.2012年には、笹川平和財団の招きで来日し、「日米のパートーナーシップ強化に向けて」という題目で講演を行っている[2]

  • https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3041895/pentagons-top-official-asia-policy-randall-schriver-quits-his Before his appointment by US President Donald Trump in early 2018, Schriver had worked in a number of government, military and civilian positions relating to East Asian affairs.Those roles included deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, CEO and president of the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank focused on security in Asia, and attaché for the Navy at the US embassy in Beijing.In a previous stint at the Pentagon in the mid-1990s, Schriver handled the US military’s bilateral relations with China’s People’s Liberation Army and oversaw the military relationship with Taiwan.During his most recent posting, Schriver has been considered a fervent ally of the self-governed island in the face of what he has called rising pressure from Beijing in the form of military build-up and activities in the region.
美國國務院負責東亞和太平洋事務的副助理國務卿黃之瀚(Alex Wong)周二指控,中國公然違反對北韓實施國際制裁的義務,當中包括收容至少兩萬名北韓工人等。黃之瀚同時宣布,華府將會懸紅最高500萬美元(約3,900萬港元),收集與北韓逃避制裁的情報。
除此之外,黃之瀚亦指摘,中方接待至少20多名與平壤武器計劃或銀行有關的北韓代表,而中國的公司亦繼續與被聯合國制裁、在上述計劃發揮關鍵作用的實體有業務上的往來。中國方面則表示,中方一向有遵守聯合國對北韓的制裁。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201203/00178_005.html


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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3023002/white-house-appoints-uygur-american-elnigar-iltebir-top-china Citing serving and former American officials, US-based Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday that Elnigar Iltebir, a Harvard-educated academic and daughter of a prominent Uygur intellectual, was appointed the US National Security Council’s director for China.In the role, Iltebir will advise the president and senior White House officials on US policy towards China and coordinate the implementation of that policy among government departments and agencies.
- 旅美的新疆維吾爾族律師阿薩特,早前以「文化滅絕:中國新疆的維吾爾政策」為題,在布蘭迪斯大學的線上研討會演講https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201121/00180_009.html


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Harry Binkley Harris Jr. (born August 4, 1956) is an Admiral in the United States Navy who currently serves as the 24th Commander, United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). He is the first Asian-American to achieve the rank of Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and the highest-ranking Japanese American.[3][4] He is also the first 4-star admiral to have participated in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC) and the first officer from the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion maritime patrol aviation community to achieve 4-star rank. He was Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii from 2013–2015.[6] While a Vice Admiral, he served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Harris' prior operational command was in 2011, when he was commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO. He is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Harris is the U.S. Navy's current "Old Goat" – the longest-serving Naval Academy graduate on active duty. He is also the Navy's current "Gray Owl" – the Naval Flight Officer on active duty who has held this designation the longest period. Harris took command of USPACOM on May 27, 2015.[3][8] On February 9, 2018, Donald Trump announced Harris as the U.S ambassador to Australia.He was born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1956.[9][4] His father was a U.S. Navy chief petty officer and his mother was Japanese. After his family's move to the United States, Harris grew up in Crossville, Tennessee and Pensacola, Florida, where he attended local public schools.

  • 哈里斯多次發表對華強硬的言論,曾以「沙長城」形容中國在南海建設的島嶼,影響區內航行自由,更斥中國在區內是「破壞力量」及「信任赤字」的國家。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180211/00180_011.html
  • https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-southkorea-harris/trump-administration-plans-to-nominate-harry-harris-as-south-korea-envoy-idUSKBN1HV2OI The Trump administration plans to nominate Admiral Harry Harris, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command already nominated to be the next U.S. ambassador to Australia, to fill the long-vacant post of ambassador to South Korea instead, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
  • http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/2143205/australia-feeling-second-class-ally-after-us-redirects

  • http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=281041

Paul Miki Nakasone (born November 19, 1963) is a four-star general in the United States Army who currently serves as the third commander of the United States Cyber Command and the first commander of the same as a unified combatant command. He is also Chief of the Central Security Service and director of the National Security Agency.[4][5] Previously, he was a senior officer in the United States Army and the commander of the United States Army Cyber Command.[6][7] Nakasone was also the commander of the United States Second Army prior to its inactivation on March 31, 2017.[8] He took command of the Second Army and Cyber Command on October 14, 2016, from Lieutenant General Edward C. Cardon.[7] On February 13, 2018, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as head of the National Security Agency, the Central Security Service and the U.S. Cyber Command. He assumed his current assignment on May 4, 2018.




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Corey Alan Stewart (born August 1, 1968) is a retired American politician who served four terms as at-large chair of the Board of Supervisors of Prince William County, Virginia from December 2006 to December 2019.Stewart was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2018 in the commonwealth of Virginia,[1] losing to Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine by more than a 15-point margin.[2] In his campaign, he had portrayed himself as an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump.According to The New York Times, Stewart "made his name attacking illegal immigrants and embracing emblems of the Confederacy."[3] He drew national media attention for spearheading Prince William County's 2007 crackdown on illegal immigrants.Stewart was born in Duluth, Minnesota, the son of Beverly, a homemaker, and Earl C. Stewart, a longshoreman.[84][85] He transferred to Georgetown University after a year at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and was the first member of his family to graduate from college.[86] He also graduated from the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and afterward settled in Virginia.[86] Stewart works as an international trade attorney, and he and his family live in Bel Air (Woodbridge, Virginia). He met his wife, Maria, who is from Sweden, while spending a year teaching English in Japan before law school.
  • In November 2020, Stewart was appointed as the principal deputy assistant secretary for export administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.[83] According to Reuters, his appointment was intended to help the Trump administration advance "hardline policies on China" in its final months.
Masa Nakayama (中山 マサ Nakayama Masa, January 19, 1891 – October 11, 1976) was a Japanese politician, who was the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of Japan when she became Minister of Health and Welfare in 1960.She was born Masa Iida-Powers in Nagasaki, the daughter of Rodney H. Powers, an American businessman, and his Japanese partner, Naka Iida. Masa attended Kwassui Jogakko, a mission school run by American Methodist missionaries. She also studied at Ohio Wesleyan University in the United States,[2] graduating in 1916 and starting a distinguished career in education prior to the outbreak of World War II.In 1947, she was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, representing the second district of Osaka Prefecture[4] for the LDP[5] as part of Hayato Ikeda's government.[6] In 1960, she became the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of Japan when she was made Minister of Health and Welfare. She served as a minister for five months, stepping down in December 1960. Nakayama retired from the Diet in 1969, and was succeeded in her seat by her son, Masaaki.She was married to Fukuzō Nakayama, who was also a politician and served in the lower house from 1932 to 1942, and later in the upper house.[4] Their sons are Representative Taro Nakayama and Representative Masaaki Nakayama. Representative Yasuhide Nakayama is their grandson and Masaaki's son.
  • 中山 泰秀(なかやま やすひで、1970年昭和45年〉10月14日 - )は、日本政治家自由民主党所属の衆議院議員(5期)、防衛副大臣内閣府副大臣2018年、TPP11協定(環太平洋パートナーシップに関する包括的及び先進的な協定の締結について承認を求める件)の採決について、外務委員会委員長として、3日間の十分な審議時間を与えた。2018年5月18日、TPP11は衆院本会議で可決された[7]。これに対し、国民民主党の関健一郎議員は「本来必要のない委員長職権による緊急上程だ」と批判し、立憲民主党の阿久津幸彦議員も批判したが、「大島(理森)議長は採決に移り、午後1時30分すぎに起立多数で可決した。」[8]コリー・ガードナー米国連邦上院議員と面会し、日米同盟強化の重要性を議員が上院で演説したことを感謝した。ガードナーは「TPP等を通じて日米同盟をさらに強化するため働けることを楽しみにしている」と伝えた[9]2019年令和元年)、日米貿易協定では、自由民主党外交部会長として、3日間のスピード了承。同協定は日本が米国産の牛肉や豚肉、乳製品などの関税を下げ、米国が日本の自動車分野以外の幅広い工業品の関税を撤廃する内容[10]。中山泰秀党外交部会長は「日米の絆が深まった」と歓迎した[11]Nakayama has also been Chairman of the Defense Committee of the LDP, was chairman of the Japan-Israel Parliamentary Friendship League, chairman of the Committee on Organizations Involved with Public Safety, Director of the Special Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues, and Secretary-General for the Parliamentary League for the Promotion of International Market Competitiveness, among many other high-profile posts in parliament and within the LDP.[3]Nakayama is a supporter of Taiwan.
    • 日本防衞副相中山泰秀昨日接受傳媒訪問時,呼籲美國候任總統拜登要「堅定」支持台灣,以面對好鬥的中國大陸,形容稱台灣的安全是亞洲的一道「紅線」。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201226/00178_013.html
-Arne Morris Sorenson (October 13, 1958 – February 15, 2021) was an American hotel executive who served as the president and chief executive officer of Marriott International. He was a graduate of Luther College in Iowa, and the University of Minnesota Law School. He previously practiced law in Washington, D.C. with Latham and Watkins (specializing in mergers and acquisitions litigation), and as the chief operating officer of Marriott.Sorenson was born in Tokyo on October 13, 1958. His father, Morris "Bo" Sorenson, Jr., was a Lutheran pastor in Japan at the time of his birth.[1] His mother, Dorothy (Austin), was a public school teacher.[2][3][4] The family returned to the United States when he was seven. He grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota



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Walton Harris Walker (December 3, 1889 – December 23, 1950) was a United States Army four-star general who served as a commander in World War IWorld War II, and the Korean War, where he commanded the Eighth United States Army before dying in a jeep accident. He received two Distinguished Service Crosses for extraordinary heroism in World War II and the Korean War.Walker was born in Belton, Texas, on December 3, 1889. His parents, Sam and Lydia Walker were both college graduates whose fathers had been officers in the Confederate Army. His father, a merchant, taught him how to ride a horse and to hunt and shoot. He graduated from the Wedemeyer Academy, a school which operated in Belton from 1886 to 1911. From a young age, he desired to go to West Point and hoped to be a general.Walker was killed in a traffic accident on December 23, 1950, near Uijeongbu, South Korea, when his north-bound command jeep collided with a south-bound weapons carrier from a South Korean army division that had swung out of its lane.[18] His body was escorted back to the United States by his son Sam Sims Walker, then a battalion commander with the 19th Infantry Regiment, who was also serving in Korea. On January 2, 1951, he was posthumously promoted to full general[19] and his body was interred in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery.Promoted posthumously to 4-star General, Walker's memory was much honored in the years immediately following the Korean War. The Army chose his name (and his other nickname), for its next light tank, the M41 Walker Bulldog. The M41 Tank was already nicknamed the Little Bulldog before Gen. Walker's death. The Army dropped the word Little and retained the name Bulldog as part of the new nickname for the M41 Tank. In Dallas, Texas, the western segment of Texas State Highway Loop 12 was named after him (the portion going through neighboring Irving, Texas continues the naming convention). One of the largest Armed Forces Recreation Center's hotels, the General Walker Hotel in Berchtesgaden (now demolished), was also named in his honor. Camp Walker in Daegu, South Korea, is named in his honor. In 1963, South Korea President Park Chung-hee honored Walker by naming a hill in the southern part of Seoul after him. Today, Walker Hill is the site of the Sheraton Walker Hill, a five-star international resort and hotel. Also, Walker Hill Apartment is located in Gwangjin-guIn December 2009, the mayor of Dobong-gu district, Choi Sun-Kil, unveiled the Walton Harris Walker monument to mark the site of his death. The memorial, which is near Dobong subway Station, pays tribute to Walker and to all those who defended South Korea in the Korean War. Walker Intermediate School which is located on the Ft. Knox Army Garrison, was named after Walker and opened in 1962.[22] His picture hangs in the school lobby.

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-  韓国語での名前は尹 茹祥(ユン・ヨサン、윤여상)。 Joseph Yuosang Yun (born 1954) is the United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy and, concurrently, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan in the US State Department. He was appointed October 17, 2016. His previous assignment was as the United States Ambassador to Malaysia, nominated by President Barack Obama on July 23, 2013 and confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2013. From 2011 to 2013 he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and from 2010 to 2011 as Deputy Assistant Secretary.[3] His overseas postings include the Republic of KoreaThailandFranceIndonesia and Hong Kong. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor.Born in Seoul, South Korea, Yun left Korea for Nigeria in 1964 at the age of 10, following his father, Dr. Suk Woo Yun, who was a doctor with the World Health Organization. Yun was educated from middle school on in the United Kingdom, earning his bachelor's degree from Cardiff University in 1976, and Master of Science (1977) and Master of Philosophy (1981) degrees from the London School of Economics. He met his wife, Melanie Billings-Yun, at LSE and they were married in 1977. They have one son, Matthew Yun. Before joining the Foreign Service, Yun was a senior economist for Data Resources, Inc., in Lexington, Massachusetts.

  • Yun was the key diplomat securing the release of American student Otto Warmbier who had been imprisoned in North Korea for nearly a year and a half.[19] In May 2017, Yun met secretly in Oslo with North Korean officials to gain diplomatic access to the four American prisoners held in Pyongyang. 
  • 尹汝尚周一傍晚突宣布,以私人原因為由,自願在本周末退休。尹汝尚的宣布令人意外,俄羅斯副外長莫爾古洛夫上周六才向俄羅斯官媒表示,邀請了尹汝尚到莫斯科與北韓官員會談。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180228/00180_005.html
- 金墉Jim Yong Kim (Hangul김짐용; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (김용), is a Korean-American physician and anthropologist serving as the 12th and current President of the World Bank since 2012. On January 7, 2019, he announced that he would be stepping down from his current role as President, effective February 1, 2019.Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1959, Jim Yong Kim immigrated with his family to the U.S. at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father taught dentistry at the University of Iowa, while his mother received her PhD in philosophy.[5] Kim attended Muscatine High School, where he was valedictorian, president of his class, and played both quarterback for the football team and point guard on the basketball team. After a year and a half at the University of Iowa, he transferred to Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in human biology in 1982. He was awarded an M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1991, and a PhD in anthropology at Harvard University in 1993. He was among the first enrollees of Harvard's experimental MD/PhD program in the social sciences.

  • 雖然世界銀行行長金墉於特朗普政府在氣候變化和能源政策等方面理念不合,但「第一女兒」伊萬卡卻與金墉交情匪淺。金墉曾幫助伊萬卡於2017年在世界銀行啟動了一個婦女創業基金會,目標是向企業家和小企業家提供總計超過10億美元的融資,這也被外界理解為伊萬卡與金墉親密關係的產物。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190109/PDF/a11_screen.pdf

-Victor D. Cha (born December 8, 1959) is an American academic, author and former national foreign policy advisor.He is a former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, with responsibility for Japan, North and South KoreaAustralia, and New Zealand.[1] He was George W. Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs.[2] He currently holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and is the Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Cha is also senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
  • In December 2004, Dr. Victor D. Cha joined the National Security Council as Director for Asian Affairs (Japan/Korea/Australia/New Zealand). Before entering government, Dr. Victor Cha (Ph.,D. Columbia, BA/MA Oxford) held the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press) (winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize) and co-author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Strategies of Engagement (Columbia University Press, 2003). Dr. Cha has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, and Survival.
  •  "Powerplay" is a term coined by Cha in his article "Powerplay Origins of the U.S. Alliance System in Asia" in the journal "International Security," which explains the reason behind the United States’ decision of pursuing a series of bilateral alliances with East Asian countries such as Republic of Korea, the Republic of China, and Japan instead of multilateral alliances like NATO with European countries under liberal institutionalism.
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  • 美國國務院的翻譯部主管李潤香(Lee Yun-hyang,音譯)。她自二○○九年起在華府全職工作,曾擔當前總統小布殊、奧巴馬及前國務卿希拉妮的翻譯員。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20180613/00176_006.html; http://time.com/5309282/lee-yun-hyang-trump-kim-translator/Lee earned a master’s degree in interpretation and translation from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul and recieved a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva in 2009. She taught at the Monterey Institute of International Studies at Middlebury College in California and Ewha University in Seoul, and is a member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters.
-美國喬治亞州即將迎來參議院選舉次輪投票之際,該州原定本月20日任期屆滿的共和黨籍韓裔檢察長,周一突然宣布辭職,僅解釋是因為不可遇見的情況。曾被視為共和黨明日新星的朴秉晉(Pak Byung Jin,音譯),由總統特朗普提名出任該州北區的聯邦檢察官,管轄範圍包括首府亞特蘭大。他在聲明表示,能為特朗普、前司法部長塞申斯和司法部長巴爾辦事感到感恩,又稱能為民眾服務是他最大的榮幸。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20210106/00180_003.html
-拜登宣誓就職時,身旁一名亞裔特勤局特工引起關注,有陰謀論指他是中國特務,最終確認是韓裔特工趙大偉(音譯,圓圖)。趙在特勤局工作20多年,曾兩度參與前總統特朗普與北韓領導人金正恩峰會保安,曾獲國土安全部嘉獎。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20210124/00180_010.html

Jennifer Carnahan was elected as the first Asian-American Chairwoman for the Republican Party of Minnesota on April 29, 2017.Prior to her election as chair, she was elected as a National Delegate to the 2016 RNC Convention in Cleveland and she was the 2016 Republican Party candidate for the Minnesota Senate in the 59th district. She was defeated by incumbent Democrat Bobby Joe ChampionOn November 11, 1976, Carnahan was abandoned on the back doorstep of a rural hospital in South Korea next to a dumpster. Five-months later she was adopted by a Minnesota family. She graduated from Osseo Senior High School in 1995.

  • 美國共和黨明尼蘇達州韓裔主席卡納漢近日在社交網透露每日遭種族及性別歧視,包括有民主共和兩黨高層及網民曾以「非在美國出生的愚蠢亞洲人」、「一文不值」等形容其身世及種族。與卡納漢有類似經歷的日裔夏威夷州眾議院議員福本原為共和黨人,惟特朗普當選總統後她辭職加入民主黨。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180628/00180_010.html
- 出道唱黑人街頭 口水歌 Rap,以搞 笑能力及幽默感贏 得認同的 Awkwafina,獲邀大銀幕參 演全女版《盜海豪情》( Oceans 8)、《我的超豪男友》(The Crazy Rich Asian),貫徹搞笑才能,大眾笑 聲中打破膚色界限種族差異,似色盲 也似忘卻一般人印象中明星演員即俊 男美女方程式,喜歡上Awkwafina。 Awkward 意解兀突,Awkwafina 這 個兀突別名並非為了進入娛樂圈而起 的藝名,早在上中學十四、五歲已因 語言行徑兀突被同學嘲弄,乘機以兀 突改名以正視聽,既自嘲、亦反諷; 誰知別名成為一道保安扶危的護身 符,讓她嶄露頭角繼而大紅大紫。 原名 Nora Lum,可能姓林,Awkwafina父親是美國土生土長華裔,對 於四歲時病逝的韓裔母親基本上毫無 印象,由操流利英語、廣東話及一口 京片子原籍北京的祖母撫養成長。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/01/10/a20-0110.pdf
Chungha was born Kim Chan-mi in Seoul in February 1996. She and her family moved to America to live in Dallas, Texas, when she was young, which is why Chungha is fluent in English.She moved back to South Korea when she was a teenager to follow her dreams of becoming a star. For six years, she lived as a K-pop  trainee and a freelance dancer, performing as backup on TV shows and for groups like B1A4 and Teen Top. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3079389/minnie-gi-dle-thai-born-lead-vocalist-who-wants-inspire-non
- german korean

cambodians
- https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3020574/life-under-khmer-rouge-cambodian-family-who-buried-their Rama family’s journey from pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia via refugee camps to their resettlement in the United States.Born in 1965 into the middle-class family in the northwestern city of Battambang, Vira Rama was the second oldest of seven siblings. In April 1975, 
life as Cambodians knew it was destroyed when the Khmer Rouge took power
and set about enforcing a bloody and brutal rule.

philippines
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before his death.Taft was born in CincinnatiOhio in 1857. His father, Alphonso Taft, was a U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War
  • In January 1900, Taft was called to Washington to meet with McKinley. Taft hoped a Supreme Court appointment was in the works, but instead McKinley wanted to place Taft on the commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines. The appointment would require Taft's resignation from the bench; the president assured him that if he fulfilled this task, McKinley would appoint him to the next vacancy on the high court. Taft accepted on condition he was made head of the commission, with responsibility for success or failure; McKinley agreed, and Taft sailed for the islands in April 1900.The American takeover meant the Philippine Revolution bled into the Philippine–American War, as Filipinos fought for their independence, but U.S. forces, led by military governor General Arthur MacArthur Jr.[h] had the upper hand by 1900. Taft sought to make the Filipinos partners in a venture that would lead to their self-government; he saw independence as something decades off. Many Americans in the Philippines viewed the locals as racial inferiors, but Taft wrote soon before his arrival, "we propose to banish this idea from their minds".[30] Taft did not impose racial segregation at official events, and treated the Filipinos as social equals.[31] Nellie Taft recalled that "neither politics nor race should influence our hospitality in any way".McKinley was assassinated in September 1901, and was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. Taft and Roosevelt had first become friends around 1890 while Taft was Solicitor General and Roosevelt a member of the Civil Service Commission. Taft had, after McKinley's election, urged the appointment of Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and watched as Roosevelt became a war hero, Governor of New York, and Vice President of the United States. They met again when Taft went to Washington in January 1902 to recuperate after two operations caused by an infection.[33] There, Taft testified before the Senate Committee on the Philippines. Taft wanted Filipino farmers to have a stake in the new government through land ownership, but much of the arable land was held by Catholic religious orders of mostly Spanish priests, which were often resented by the Filipinos. Roosevelt had Taft go to Rome to negotiate with Pope Leo XIII, to purchase the lands and to arrange the withdrawal of the Spanish priests, with Americans replacing them and training locals as clergy. Taft did not succeed in resolving these issues on his visit to Rome, but an agreement on both points was made in 1903.In late 1902, Taft had heard from Roosevelt that a seat on the Supreme Court would soon fall vacant on the resignation of Justice George Shiras, and Roosevelt desired that Taft fill it. Although this was Taft's professional goal, he refused as he felt his work as governor was not yet done.[35] The following year, Roosevelt asked Taft to become Secretary of War. As the War Department administered the Philippines, Taft would remain responsible for the islands, and Elihu Root, the incumbent, was willing to postpone his departure until 1904, allowing Taft time to wrap up his work in Manila. After consulting with his family, Taft agreed, and sailed for the United States in December 1903.Through the 1903 separation of Panama from Colombia and the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, the United States had secured rights to build a canal in the Isthmus of Panama. Legislation authorizing construction did not specify which government department would be responsible, and Roosevelt designated the Department of War. Taft journeyed to Panama in 1904, viewing the canal site and meeting with Panamanian officials. The Isthmian Canal Commission had trouble keeping a chief engineer, and when in February 1907 John D. Stevens submitted his resignation, Taft recommended an army engineer, George W. Goethals. Under Goethals, the project moved ahead smoothly.Another colony lost by Spain in 1898 was Cuba, but as freedom for Cuba had been a major purpose of the war, it was not annexed by the U.S., but was, after a period of occupation, given independence in 1902. Election fraud and corruption followed, as did factional conflict. In September 1906, President Tomás Estrada Palma asked for U.S. intervention. Taft traveled to Cuba with a small American force, and on September 29, 1906, under the terms of the Cuban–American Treaty of Relations of 1903, declared himself Provisional Governor of Cuba, a post he held for two weeks before being succeeded by Charles Edward Magoon. In his time in Cuba, Taft worked to persuade Cubans that the U.S. intended stability, not occupation.Taft remained involved in Philippine affairs. During Roosevelt's election campaign in 1904, he urged that Philippine agricultural products be admitted to the U.S. without duty. This caused growers of U.S. sugar and tobacco to complain to Roosevelt, who remonstrated with his Secretary of War. Taft expressed unwillingness to change his position, and threatened to resign;[44] Roosevelt hastily dropped the matter.[45] Taft returned to the islands in 1905, leading a delegation of congressmen, and again in 1907, to open the first Philippine Assembly.On both of his Philippine trips as Secretary of War, Taft went to Japan, and met with officials there.[47] The meeting in July 1905 came a month before the conference which would end the Russo-Japanese War with the Treaty of Portsmouth. Taft met with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Tarō. After that meeting, the two signed a memorandum. It contained nothing new but instead reaffirmed official positions: Japan had no intention to invade the Philippines, and the U.S. that it did not object to Japanese control of Korea.[48] There were U.S. concerns about the number of Japanese laborers coming to the American West Coast, and during Taft's second visit, in September 1907, Tadasu Hayashi, the foreign minister, informally agreed to issue fewer passports to them.[
Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, lawyer, and Republican Party politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in US foreign policy by serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under President William Howard TaftSecretary of State(1929–1933) under President Herbert Hoover, and Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.Stimson served as Secretary of War under Taft. He continued the reorganization of the United States Army that had begun under his mentor, Elihu Root. After the outbreak of World War I, Stimson became part of the Preparedness Movement. He served as an artillery officer in France after the United States entered the war. From 1927 to 1929, he served as Governor-General of the Philippines under President Calvin Coolidge.
In 1929, President Hoover appointed Stimson as Secretary of State. Stimson sought to avoid a worldwide naval race and thus helped negotiate the London Naval Treaty. He protested the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, which instituted the Stimson Doctrine of nonrecognition of international territorial changes that are executed by force. After World War II broke out in Europe, Stimson accepted President Franklin Roosevelt's appointment to the position as Secretary of War. After the United States entered World War II, Stimson took charge of raising and training 13 million soldiers and airmen, supervised the spending of a third of the nation's GDP on the Army and the Air Forces, helped formulate military strategy, and oversaw the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs. He supported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During and after the war, Stimson strongly opposed the Morgenthau Plan, which would have deindustrialized and partitioned Germanyinto several smaller states. He also insisted on judicial proceedings against Nazi war criminals, which led to the Nuremberg trials.In 1927, Stimson was sent by President Calvin Coolidge to Nicaragua to negotiate an end to the Nicaraguan Civil War. Stimson wrote that Nicaraguans "were not fitted for the responsibilities that go with independence and still less fitted for popular self-government."[13] He opposed independence for the Philippines for the same reason after he had been appointed Governor-General of the Philippines, an office that he held from 1927 to 1929.[

filipino
- scmp 24nov19 filipino american ruby ibarra (a rapper) immigrant in san francisco


Company
- mbna

  • http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21679771-charles-cawley-credit-card-billionaire-and-saviour-mid-coast-maine-died-november-18th
- esprit

  • http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/09/douglas-tompkins-billionaire-behind-north-face-dies-after-kayak-accident The pioneering clothing and equipment designer, who also co-founded the Esprit apparel brand, had for the last quarter of a century spent millions of dollars financing national parks. He and wife Kristine saved an estimated two million acres of pristine South American ecosystems. In 1989 Tompkins abandoned his wealthy corporate lifestyle and estate in San Francisco as he moved to the wilds of Patagonia. Spending months hiking, kayaking and exploring the southern rainforests, Tompkins adopted the values of the deep ecology movement and commenced a determined conservation battle. Beginning in Chile and then in Argentina, he campaigned with coalitions of environmental activists as he battled to stop developers churning through pristine forests, wetlands and coastal prairies.


- burt's bees

  • http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21659686-burt-shavitz-co-founder-burts-bees-died-july-5th-aged-80-buzz-buzz?fsrc=rss
architect
 Tsien is an American architect who started her practice Tod Williams Bille Tsien Architects (TWBTA) in 1977.Billie Tsien (born 1949, Ithaca, New York) received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and her M. Arch. from UCLA. She has worked with Williams since 1977 and they have been in partnership since 1986.[7] Tsien is currently President of the Architectural League of New York[8] and Director of the Public Art Fund.[9] She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and LettersNational Academy, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (also known as Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners) are a husband-and-wife architectural firm founded in 1986, based in New York. Tod and Billie began working together in 1977.[1] Their studio focuses on work for institutions including museums, schools, and nonprofit organizations.
  • projects include asia society hk center, obama presidential center

showbiz
細數過去百年西方人眼中東方美人的標準,不難看出,屬於東方美的特質已變種,與遠東人追捧的西方美特徵,套上自己身上的標準大相逕庭:Anna May Wong(黃柳霜),生於1905年美國羅省的台山華僑,上世紀三、四十年代荷里活著名紅星,演繹角色以惡毒東方女性而出色,深化而摩登的中國形象鑄造了往後超過一百年西方人眼中的東方人樣板:丹鳳眼、小巧鼻、豐厚唇,身材精緻。繼後無論在西方走紅的名模們;日本小夜子( Sayoko )、許愛蓮( Christina Hui )、石凱、陳曼齡( Ling Tan )、李昕、呂燕......乃至劉雯,全皆黃柳霜接班人,包括近期紅到發紫中韓混血金球獎影后Awkwafina。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/04/24/a23-0424.pdf
- peter luo
  • Cliquey and closed off, Hollywood can seem a republic unto itself, where the only currency is name recognition, and all that matters is who is in your address book. This makes the story of Starlight Culture Entertainment all the more remarkable.Few among the showbiz elite know about company – which has offices in glitzy Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, and Hangzhou, China – but that is about to change.Under its chief executive, Peter Luo, Starlight has drafted production deals with 10 of the biggest directors in Hollywood – among them Jon Chu (
    Crazy Rich Asians), Roland Emmerich (2012), F. Gary Gray (The Fate of the Furious), Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump), Sam Raimi (Spider-Man), Sylvester Stallone (The Expendables), and Alan Taylor (Terminator Genisys) – as well as working behind the scenes. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3021247/why-next-hollywood-mogul-will-be-chinese-hes-there-already

Journalists
- brian williams

  • http://rt.com/usa/229451-brian-williams-nbc-retraction/, http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--brian-williams-recants-story-iraq-helicopter-after-soldiers-protest-231038729.html, http://www.wsj.com/articles/nbcs-brian-williams-recants-tale-1423101759
Veteran broadcast journalist Tara Joseph is leaving Reuters to become president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham). Joseph, currently chief Asia correspondent, Reuters TV, has 25 years’ experience in broadcast media in New York, London, and Hong Kong. For more than a decade, she has been reporting and presenting for TV based in Hong Kong for Asia, including chief correspondent for Asia, TV, (2015-16) and executive producer, TV, (2008-14) at Reuters. She has moderated numerous webcasts and panel events including shows hosted at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Prior to working in Hong Kong, Joseph was global editor and main presenter of Reuters Financial Television based in London. - See more at: http://www.thebaron.info/people/career-change-for-reuters-tvs-tara-joseph#sthash.Q8ZBlxNA.dpuf


Asian Politicians
- solomon yue vice president of overseas affairs section of republican party singtao 3dec19 report on him commenting on us china trade dispute

  • 關閉戶口嘅消息,係美國共和黨海外事務組織副主席俞懷松(Solomon Yue)喺前晚,於社交平台指出滙豐已關閉陳智思嘅銀行帳戶,並揚言陸續會有更多戶口被關。但係陳智思就否認呢個講法,又話自己喺滙豐銀行冇戶口。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200801/00176_098.html

- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2145624/asian-americans-join-politics-rise-against-donald Dozens of Asian-Americans are running for federal office in the US as Democratic candidates, deliberately playing up their Asian roots in a battle against President Donald Trump, who they say demonises the immigrants who make America great.
- 劉雲平Ted W. Lieu (/l/; born March 29, 1969) is an American politician and US Air Force Reserve colonel, currently serving as the US Representative for California's 33rd congressional district, since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was California State Senator representing the 28th Senate district from February 2011 to November 2014, after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Senator Jenny Oropeza. Lieu was also a California State Assemblyman, representing the 53rd Assembly district from September 2005 to November 2010 after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Assemblyman Mike Gordon. Lieu actively served in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1995 to 1999 and since 2000 has served in the reserve with his current rank of colonel upon his promotion in December 2015. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Lieu Assistant Whip of the 115th Congress starting in 2017.

  • 首代移民劉雲平有望當選http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20141103/PDF/a10_screen.pdf
  • http://dailybruin.com/2018/05/11/ted-lieu-no-longer-to-speak-at-ucla-school-of-law-commencement/ Congressman Ted Lieu pulled out of the UCLA School of Law’s commencement Friday because of the University of California’s ongoing labor dispute. The law school announced Lieu, who represents the congressional district that includes UCLA and Westwood, would be its commencement speaker in March. However, Lieu’s office informed the law school Thursday that he would not be able to attend, said Bill Kisliuk, a spokesperson for the school. Instead, Chancellor Gene Block is scheduled to give the commencement address during the ceremony in Dickson Court on Friday.
  • http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2145624/asian-americans-join-politics-rise-against-donald
Peter Koo (顧雅明; Gù Yǎmíng)

  • http://council.nyc.gov/d20/html/members/home.shtml
  • singtao 22nov14 a22 support obama's policy towards illegal immigrants
- grace meng

  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3235713/Five-arrested-including-congresswoman-s-brother-37-people-charged-fraternity-hazing-death-college-freshman.html Five people, including the former national president of a fraternity, have been charged in the death of a New York City college freshman during a hazing ritual in Pennsylvania, police said Tuesday. Fraternity members at Baruch College physically abused Chun 'Michael' Deng, then tried to cover it up as the 19-year-old lay dying in their rented house in the Pocono Mountains, police said. Pocono Mountain Regional police planned to arrest suspects in waves, moving from least to most culpable, after a grand jury recommended charges for 37 people in Deng's December 2013 death. The first five suspects, including former Pi Delta Psi President Andy Meng, were charged with hazing, conspiracy and hindering apprehension and were making arrangements Tuesday to turn themselves in. Meng, 30, of Queens, allegedly received calls from frat members asking for guidance after Deng started having trouble breathing. Meng, who is the younger brother of U.S. Congresswoman from New York Grace Meng, was serving as the fraternity's national president at the time of Deng's death. According to the New York Post, police say Meng instructed the brothers to hide any items that might implicate the fraternity.
- Michelle Wu

  • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160107/00180_003.html 美國波士頓三十歲台灣移民後代吳弭(Michelle Wu),日前當選為波士頓市議長,成為該市一百零六年來首位亞裔市議長,也是美國歷來第三位女性市議長。吳弭的父母均為台灣移民,她則在芝加哥郊區長大,於哈佛大學畢業
- 江俊輝(John Chiang)
  • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160519/00180_022.html 美國加州華裔財政部長江俊輝(John Chiang)周二正式宣布,將會參加一八年州長選舉,並公開呼籲籌募選舉經費。現年五十三歲的江俊輝,生於紐約一個台灣移民家庭,並於芝加哥長大。他承諾一旦當選,將會加強基建、為新一代建立更可靠的退休保障,以及重建中產階層。
  • 同日現身的三藩市市議員余鼎昂,宣布支持江俊輝參選 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171210/00180_022.html
- 唐鳳巧(Nancy Tong)

  • 在香港出生、7歲移民美國的唐鳳巧(Nancy Tong),將參加市議會選舉。http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20170817/20124269
- liza lau normandy

  • Liza Lau Normandy has been elected mayor of South San Francisco, the first Chinese-American to be elected in the city's 110 years history, according to World Journal.Liza said her father was born in Guangdong province of China, and immigrated to Los Angeles when he was young, and her mother came from the Republic of Korea.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/11/WS5a2e2643a310eefe3e9a28fd.html

- candidates of city government elections

  • http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20151104/19359483 美國洛杉磯縣(Los Angeles County)市政綜合選舉在11月3日(周二)舉行,將選出新一屆市議員、學區教委及水區理事等。今次共有19名華人、兩名華人女婿及一名華人媳婦參選。哈岡學區教委郭志(Gino Kwok)及嘉偉學區教委羅霈霆(Henry Lo)均是尋求連任的候選人,郭志表示,部份由他提出的校園建設項目,包括興建高中足球場等仍在進行,故希望成功連任完成有關項目;爭取第四度連任的羅霈霆則強調,會致力加強學區的教學質素及社區服務。同樣競爭激烈的「戰場」還有羅蘭崗聯合學區的教委選舉,五名候選人爭兩個名額。參選的兩名華人包括尋求連任的聶曼麗(Judy Nieh),她已出任該區教委12年,熟悉該區情況。聶曼麗表示,當區學生有36%為華裔,惟華裔教職員的比例卻遠遠不及,若連任將改善有關問題。她續稱,學區去年有不少新管理層加入,希望藉自己的豐富經驗協助新舊班子溝通,又指當地不少學校設備陳舊,若能連任會致力更新教學設施及配套。至於在聖安東尼奧學院(Mt. San Antonio College)第五區的理事選舉則上演新舊大戰。曾兩度競選教委、今次轉戰理事的華人陳介飛(Jay Chen),將與新人特羅內斯(Garrett Terrones)挑戰資深理事希爾(Frederick Chyr)。已連任多屆的希爾在參選截止日前一天才報名,似乎胸有成竹。首次參選公職、競逐格蘭多拉學區教委的華人媳婦陳琳達(Linda Chan),其丈夫是馬來西亞華僑,目前在西勒斯社區學院(Citrus College)擔任講師。她專責教授理科,有30年教學經驗,承諾改善教育質素,並將所有教育經費用於學生身上。核桃谷水區的兩名華裔候選人伍立倫(Allen Wu)及鄺趙百淳(Scarlett Kwong)則在無對手下,自動當選理事。洛杉磯縣的選民可於早上7時至晚上8時到指定票站投票。
  • http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20151104/19359482美國紐約周二(3日)舉行普選,選出司法界、教育界及市議員等多個民意代表及地方性職位。布魯克林華人聯合會成員Wilson Cheung鼓勵華裔選民踴躍投票,讓政府聽到華人的聲音,「幫我們華人得到更多資源」。華人聚居地皇后區(Queens)及布魯克林區(Brooklyn)將選出多名市議員、眾議員及州參議員。其中皇后區內第23選區將進行市議員補選,候選人郭登祺(Barry Grodenchik)是現任皇后區區長,與亞裔及華人社群關係友好。不過郭登祺的選情一點也不輕鬆,因其對手包括土生土長、熟悉社區事務的紐約市前社區事務局助理局長林奇(Rebecca Lynch),以及有30年打擊罪惡經驗的紐約州前警察局分局局長康坎諾(Joseph Concannon)。由於該選區內超過三分之一選民為亞裔,亦是傳統華埠,華人手中一票成為致勝關鍵。郭登祺近月先後拜訪法拉盛華人工商促進會(The Flushing Chinese Business Association)及華人家長會,又表示州政府應為移民提供英語教育,尋求華裔選民支持。華人家長會會長朱寶玲相信郭登祺「可以幫助我們,讓華裔子弟得到更好的教育,爭取更多的福利」。
  • http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20151104/19359484 美國三藩市聯合市政選舉11月3日舉行,選民要就7個市縣職位及11個地方選票提案投票;其中市長一職多達6人競逐,但分析認為李孟賢連任機會甚高。需投票選出的7個市縣職位,分別為市長、市府律師、地方檢察官、縣警長、財政官、市參議員及社區大學董事會成員。
    在市長的競逐上,尋求連任的李孟賢(Ed Lee)將面對葛蘭姆(Kent Graham)、艾雷拉(Francisco Herrera)、馬丁(Reed Martin)、舒夫曼(Stuart Schuffman)及維絲(Amy Farah Weiss)五人挑戰。屬於民主黨的李孟賢2011年當選為首位民選華裔市長,其在任四年的「成績表」包括復蘇經濟、創造就業致失業率大跌,均獲不少好評。雖然有批評指他的政策只傾向大財團大企業,忽略低收入家庭及勞工階層,惟他今次的五名對手均無從政背景,也欠缺足夠財力,故分析相信李孟賢可輕鬆擊敗五人,難怪他自己也對連任充滿信心。另一個競爭較激烈的「戰場」是第三選區市參議員一職,華裔音樂教授彭德慧(Wilma Pang)及前市議長佩斯金(Aaron Peskin)會挑戰尋求連任的冀芷欣(Julie Christensen)。彭德慧曾稱,參選是希望為唐人街的長者發聲,並為保護三藩市藝術家及文化出一分力。
  • http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160521/00180_015.html美國加州三藩市近月發生連串警方槍殺黑人事件,引發民眾絕食抗議及多次衝突,要求警察局長蘇爾(Greg Suhr)下台,惟華裔市長李孟賢一直拒絕將他撤職。當地時間周四早晨再爆出警員射殺手無寸鐵的黑人女子,同日下午李孟賢宣布,蘇爾已應要求辭去局長一職。
Asian academics
- 熊玠

  • http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/01/16/a11-0116.pdf 今年踏入 80歲的熊玠在訪問中指出,傳統「地緣政治」由意識形態和領土控制兩大元素組成,當今「地緣經濟」則着眼於經濟安全,而它比軍事安全更重要,一個大國需擁有充裕資金、龐大勞動力和本國市場。根據上述條件來判斷,中國、美國、俄羅斯都是「21世紀大國」。


Asian Women in Government
-Tina Tchen 陳遠美 Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
- Jane Chu http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1532198/jane-chu-head-us-national-endowment-arts
- elaine chao    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao

  • http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150108/PDF/a19_screen.pdf 麥康奈爾早前在參議院多數黨領袖投票中輕鬆獲勝,成為國會山風頭躉,正式成為參議院所有議事議程的 「掌門人」、博納在黨內的最重要合作對象、奧巴馬在國會山的頭號夥伴兼政治對手。在副總統兼參議院議長拜登的主持下,麥康奈爾當天宣誓就職。他的妻子趙小蘭攜父親、妹妹等全家16位成員來到現場見證這一時刻。拜登甚至非常親暱地俯身親吻了趙小蘭妹妹趙小美的女兒,送上祝福。
  • https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/03/politics/elaine-chao-china/index.html The Times investigation outlined Chao's ties to Foremost Group, her family's shipping business. The report noted that while Chao "has no formal affiliation or stake" in the company, she and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have received millions in gifts from Chao's father, who used to run the company, along with political donations from her family. Chao, according to the report, has boosted the company in China, whose government runs a bank that has loan commitments from the shipping company in the order of "hundreds of millions of dollars." The report said in addition to the shipping company, Chao's family has other ties to official China, including board positions in state companies and a close relationship between Chao's father and former Chinese President and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
  • 眾議院監督和政府改革委員會周一(16日)宣布調查台裔運輸部長趙小蘭。她被指以內閣職位以權謀私,令其家族與北京關係密切的船務生意獲益,案件或令其丈夫、參議院多數黨領袖麥康奈爾同受牽連。監督和政府改革委員會主席、民主黨籍的卡明斯指出,趙小蘭涉嫌利用職權去達到個人利益的指控,引伸出不少「令人困擾的問題」,已去信對方要求取得十八份資料,包括她與父親趙錫成和妹妹趙安吉之間的聯絡文件。趙小蘭需在本月三十日前交出有關文件,而調查結果更可能導致政府需重新審視虛報財產的罰則,甚至修法以加強申請監管。其丈夫麥康奈爾亦面臨麻煩。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190918/00180_001.html
  • https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3031061/probe-us-transport-chief-elaine-chaos-china-links The US Department of Transportation on Monday challenged a House committee’s investigation into Secretary Elaine Chao’s personal and family business dealings, rejecting allegations that she had used her office for her family’s benefit and charging that questions about Chao’s relationship with her father showed a “fundamental lack of understanding” about Asian cultural values.The House committee is also seeking information about Chao’s disclosure of holdings in Vulcan Materials Group, a construction materials firm on whose board she previously sat. Chao sold the shares days after The Wall Street Journal reported in March that she continued to hold them.Sullivan’s letter did not address questions the committee raised about a trip Chao planned to China in 2017 that The New York Times reported was cancelled because State Department officials were leery of her efforts to include family members in meetings.
  • 日皇德仁於今年五月即位,日本將於本月二十二日舉行其登基大典「即位禮正殿之儀」。美國白宮上周五宣布,運輸部長趙小蘭將取代副總統彭斯,與其餘近二百個其他國家代表出席有關儀式。 美方原定安排彭斯出席儀式,但可能考慮到他需出席十一月上旬在泰國舉行的東亞峰會等,所以改由趙小蘭出席。在一九九○年的上皇明仁即位儀式,美方出席者亦非時任總統老布殊,而是副總統奎爾。 https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191007/00180_005.html
  • 美國運輸部監察長發布一份報告說,在特朗普共和黨政府任內運輸部長期間,趙小蘭多次利用其辦公室人員來幫助經營與中國有廣泛關係的航運公司的家庭成員。作為交通部長,趙女士是特朗普政府負責監督美國航運業的最高官員,該行業正受到中國競爭對手的打擊。運輸部監察長在致國會眾議院議員的一封長達44頁的信中說:『有必要對潛在的職位濫用進行正式調查。』並詳細描述了『利用公職謀取私利』:她的辦公室被用來處理與父親有關的事情。父親在1950年代後期從台灣移居美國後,成立了『福茂集團』,一家紐約的國際航運公司,將煤炭和鐵礦石等商品運輸到中國市場,又負責中國政府造船廠的大部分訂單,並與一家中國鋼鐵製造商簽訂了長期租船合同。調查人員發現,趙女士利用她的員工安排了父親2017年10月中國之行的細節,包括通過國務院要求中國交通運輸部為代表團安排車輛,該旅行團包括趙女士的妹妹和妹夫,並安排與中國『高層領導人』會面,其中包括趙小蘭的父親和姐姐,但不包括運輸部其他工作人員。民主黨人抓住這份報告,作為整個特朗普政府存在道德問題的進一步證據。說公務員,必須知道他們為公眾服務,而不是其家庭的私人商業利益服務。趙小蘭部長是共和黨領袖、肯塔基州參議員麥康奈爾的妻子,數十年來在共和黨政治中一直舉足輕重,在小布殊任職總統時曾任8年勞工部長……」「是的,1996年我在香港會過她。」我插嘴說:「那時候我還是個眼科醫生、全國政協委員、香港特區籌備委員會委員。因為當時我也是香港政策研究所的副主席,正要陪同主席接待來港的美國傳統基金會主席,談論把香港納進傳統基金會的世界自由經濟指標裏,而陪同那主席來港的正是研究員趙小蘭!從那年1997年開始香港便榮冠自由經濟指標之首連續多年,但今天也是這傳統基金會把香港特別行政區從指標裏除名,說要歸還到中國的隊伍裏去!看來又是打壓中國的套路拳術的一招吧!」https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20210308/00176_072.html

Gerald Tsai http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akJQeQcWrgCY

Linda Chen
- Linda Chen: Building a multi-billion dollar 'Las Vegas of the east'
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/10/business/linda-chen-building-a-multi-billion-dollar/index.html

Robert Wang
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1592008/hong-kongs-graft-busters-model-asia-pacific-says-us-official

方李邦琴
- hket 12sept14 full page feature on her involvement in US China relations

Chen Guangbiao
- http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/25/world/asia/chen-guangbiao-profile

美國白宮和美國疾病控制及預防中心(CDC),先後批評公營廣播機構「美國之音」為中國宣傳。美國參議院日前通過高層人事案後,美國之音台長貝內特(Amanda Bennett)及副台長舒高瓦拉(Sandy Sugawara),於美國當地時間前日宣布辭職。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200617/00180_012.html


Asian-American communities in the United States have joined in support of the widespread protests after a black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota died in police custody last week.  https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3087066/asian-americans-join-support-protests-after-george-floyds-death

economist 29 feb2020 "the benefits of being bold" a provocative study examines asian in american corner offices

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