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Don’t get us wrong — we love Liu, and we’re all for an Asian king thriving. But when a single actor appears to be getting the bulk of Asian male roles in Hollywood, it starts to feel a little less ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. commemorates its centenary in 2023 with a year’s long celebration highlighted by its inaugural Asian Pacific ...

UN rights chief voices concern over sentencing of Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong
The UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, has said he is “very concerned” after China sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers to more than a decade each in jail.
Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were convicted of subversion of state power after closed-door trials and respectively.

Latest move fits with Albanese government’s attempts to pursue ‘constructive’ dialogue with China without making any policy concessions
The Australian government is taking a gamble by pressing pause on its formal complaint against China’s hefty tariffs on barley at the 11th hour.
But ministers appear to see this as a risk worth taking in the hope of solving one of the most intractable elements of the wider dispute between Australia and its largest trading partner.

In ‘sign of goodwill’, federal government temporarily suspends WTO challenge as China agrees to review its tariffs
The Australian government has reached a deal with China that may lead to the removal of tariffs on Australian barley that were introduced at the height of diplomatic tensions in 2020.
While the axing of the tariffs is not guaranteed, the Australian government presented the snap review as an important “pathway” to resolve one of the most complex trade disputes between the two countries.

More than 17,000 troops are involved in the Balikatan drills, which follow days of military exercises around Taiwan by China
The United States and the Philippines have launched their largest combat exercises in decades in waters across the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, a move that is likely to inflame Beijing.
The annual drills by the longtime treaty allies called Balikatan – Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder – will run up to 28 April and involve more than 17,600 military personnel. The drills will include live-fire exercises and a boat-sinking rocket assault.

China’s president, Xi Jinping, is often the subject of internet memes that compare him to the children’s character
Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches, popularised by air force pilots, that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie-the-Pooh – representing China’s president Xi Jinping – as a defiant symbol of the island’s resistance to Chinese war games.
China around Taiwan on Saturday, a day after the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, returned from a brief visit to the United States, where despite Beijing’s warnings.

The Asian American Cultural Center hosts a Calligraphy night, teaching students how to write the basic strokes that makeup most stroke-based languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic ...

Downtown Summerlin is set to host the Lei Day Parade to kick off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and celebrate the rich heritage of the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands. The parade will take place ...

Also, President Biden prepares to visit Northern Ireland and Ireland.

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