A review of Xiaobei Chen’s paper on anti-Chinese racism in Canada Ng Weng Hoong, September 24, 2022, Saturday. @WengCouver Sociologist Xiaobei Chen has written possibly the first scholarly paper about the new wave of anti-Chinese sentiment sweeping across Canada. It is partly old racism in new packaging, a carryover from the 19th century (1) when […]
READ MOREThe Conversation interviews Joseph Torigian, Assistant Professor of International Service, American University. March 11, 2022, Friday Russia has few friends in the international community following its invasion of Ukraine. But China, which shares a 4,300-kilometer border with Russia, is among the handful of nations that has refused to condemn Vladimir Putin’s actions, while criticizing the […]
READ MOREAn interview with Darren Byler on his latest book, “In the Camps: China’s Hi-Tech Penal Colony” OnePacificNews, December 13, 2021, Monday By Ng Weng Hoong @WengCouver There are two Xinjiangs in the far western region of China today. One is the land of detention camps, torture, and cultural cleansing. The other is the promised land […]
READ MOREOnePacificNews, November 8, 2021, MondayBy Ng Weng Hoong @WengCouver Which was the most salient story from Canada’s 44th Federal election? The politics of the COVID-19 pandemic would be a strong candidate. Also in contention are the economy, the housing crisis gone nationwide, and the pelting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by stone-throwing populists. As it […]
READ MOREXiaobei Chen: Understanding The Roots of Systemic Anti-Asian Racism*
admin November 7, 2021 2 CommentsBy Xiaobei Chen, Special to OnePacificNews *This article is an adaption of a chapter with the same title in Reading Sociology (4th ed.), edited by Johanne Jean-Pierre, Vanessa Watts, Carl James, Patrizia Albanese, Xiaobei Chen, and Michael Graydon, Oxford University Press (Forthcoming in fall 2022). IntroductionBy February 2020, many Chinese Canadians were confronted with two […]
READ MOREBy Ciara Morris, October 18, 2021, MondayAustralian Institute of International Affairs Australia and Canada are Western middle-power democracies and US allies that struggle to manage relations with an increasingly assertive and powerful PRC. This is causing unnecessary hardship for Chinese Australians and Canadians. There are over 1.2 million Australians of Chinese heritage living in Australia, […]
READ MOREXi Jinping blinks: China could ease import restrictions on Australian coal
admin October 8, 2021 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, October 8, 2021, Friday. Twitter: @WengCouver It’s been over a year since China started flexing its economic muscles to try bend Australia’s political will over their increasingly bitter bilateral disputes. This was in response to Australia accusing its biggest trading partner of the following: Interference with its domestic politics; Not being truthful about the […]
READ MOREFlawed Tax Study Fans More Fearmongering About Canada’s Housing Crisis
admin September 30, 2021 0 COMMENTSOnePacificNews, September 30, 2021, WednesdayBy Ng Weng Hoong @WengCouver What is causing Canada’s seemingly unsolvable housing woes? While many Americans and Europeans fear immigrants and foreigners for crime, terrorism, and job losses, Canadians increasingly view competition for housing from outsiders as their biggest existential threat. This uniquely Canadian perspective of foreign capital as a threat […]
READ MOREBy Shalom Salomon Wald, September 29, 2021NOTE: This commentary was first published by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) on its website on September 14, 2021The change of the US administration in 2021 did not mitigate the conflict between the two powers, contrary to what the Chinese had hoped when the US invited two of […]
READ MOREA review of Sam Cooper’s book about China in Canada OnePacificNews, August 7, 2021, SaturdayBy Ng Weng Hoong @WengCouver In Sam Cooper’s world, every Chinese person is either a communist infiltrator, a murderous criminal, a triad drug dealer, an arms smuggler, a casino money launderer, a gambling addict, a human rights-abusing politician, a housing speculator, […]
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