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Georgia’s multiethnic Asian American communities were part of the driving force that helped Democrats flip the state in 2020. This year, however, things look different.

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Australian citizen Daniel Duggan detained after western governments warned China was luring serving and former jet pilots to train its own air force
A former US fighter pilot detained in Australia under a veil of secrecy will “vigorously” fight his extradition to the US and is seeking the intervention of an intelligence watchdog, his lawyer says.
The ex-marine Daniel Edmund Duggan, who is now an Australian citizen, was arrested in New South Wales on 21 October – the same week the British government about China’s recruitment of retired military pilots.

Yan’an is where Mao Zedong definitively – and brutally – stamped his supreme authority on China’s Communist party. Experts explain how Xi continues to shape himself as today’s embodiment of the ‘great leader’
Xi Jinping’s next decade in power will see China increasingly revert to Mao Zedong’s ideology and Communist orthodoxy, a trend confirmed by his pilgrimage to a remote city known as the cradle of the Communist party’s revolution, analysts say.
Days after the president secured an as the chief of the Chinese Communist party, he took his newly appointed politburo standing committee – China’s top decision-making body, – to Yan’an in the north-western province of Shaanxi, where the Chinese Communist party retreated and rebuilt its strength amid civil wars from 1935 to 1948.

The U.S. Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action this week highlighted widespread fears among Asian Americans that they face bias in selective college admissions.

The U.S. Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action this week highlighted widespread fears among Asian Americans that they face bias in selective college admissions.

The U.S. Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action this week highlighted widespread fears among Asian Americans that they face bias in selective college admissions.

Federal prosecutors say Darrin Johnson, 26, of Cincinnati, threatened to kill the University of Cincinnati student and hit the student in the head.

There are no easy solutions to Germany’s China problem
The brevity of Olaf Scholz’s one-day visit to China, where he will President Xi Jinping on Friday, means that there will be little scope for the kind of colourful that his predecessor, Angela Merkel, enjoyed during 12 visits to Germany’s most important trading partner. For Mr Scholz, who becomes the first G7 leader to visit Beijing since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, that is just as well. The optics of the German chancellor’s trip have already proved controversial enough.
Mr Scholz is travelling with the traditional bevy of CEOs from companies such as Volkswagen, BMW and the chemicals giant BASF. But the mood music accompanying a much-criticised visit bears little relation to the confident mercantilist rhythms of the Merkel era. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and the Kremlin’s subsequent weaponisation of energy, have laid bare the potential cost of relying on politically hostile actors.

Move comes after ‘multi-step’ review by Canada’s national security and intelligence agencies
Canada has ordered China to immediately sell its holdings in three Canadian mining companies, as the need for investments in the extraction of critical minerals clashes with growing concerns over national security.
On Wednesday Canada’s industry minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said three Chinese companies would be required to divest from junior mining companies.

California’s 45th Congressional District, straddling Orange and Los Angeles counties, is as perfect an illustration of the diversity and power of Asian American voters as might be possible.

Critics say the article is flawed. But that shouldn’t discredit the lab leak theory
I must confess that when a detailing new revelations from a US Senate intelligence committee investigation pointing toward a lab leak origin of the Covid pandemic crossed my social media radar, I retweeted it after a brief skim.
After all, I already believed that many in the press had unfairly dismissed the lab leak theory in 2020. Indeed, before Covid was on the radar at all I already believed that lab leaks were an underrated threat to humanity and that the style of research that seeks to uncover new dangerous viruses in the wild or engineer them in labs is risky and should be halted. So I was sufficiently excited about the new blockbuster revelations found in Toy Reid’s translations of previously unknown official Chinese documents that I didn’t kick the tires on the piece rigorously.
Matthew Yglesias is a political commentator. He runs the Substack