Newsletter - #176 4/17 Roundtable; Red Scare/McCarthyism; Texas; ISSCO Videos/Photos; Non-Random Surveys #176 4/17 Roundtable; Red Scare/McCarthyism; Texas; ISSCO Videos/Photos; Non-Random Surveys In This Issue #176 2023/04/17 Roundtable on a National Alert Network Fight Back the Return of the Red Scare and McCarthyism Chinese Americans Fight for Their Place in Texas Online Videos and Photos of the ISSCO 30th Anniversary Conference "Inference Using Non-Random Samples? Stop Right There!" 2023/04/17 Roundtable on a National Alert Network WHEN: Monday, April 17, 2023, 7:00 pm ET/4:00 pm PT WHAT: Online Roundtable DESCRIPTION: Inaugural roundtable to establish the purpose and functions of a national media alert network and strike teams to assertively address immediate xenophobic challenges to our freedoms and longer-term proactive actions to ensure fairness and justice for all, including the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and immigrant communities. REGISTRATION: This is an event by invitation only to guests and official representative(s) of AAPI organizations. Members at the Roundtable will be sent a panelist link. Others please register at http://bit.ly/3KvlMI8 Fight Back the Return of the Red Scare and McCarthyism According to a report by the Los Angeles Times on April 9, 2023, the far-rightring site Daily Caller, co-founded by Fox News showman Tucker Carlson , published a hit piece devoid of damning facts, heavy on innuendo and liberally sprinkled with the words "alleged" and "allegedly," that painted former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Walter Wang as dangerous stooges of the Chinese Communist Party. Walter Wang, a Taiwanese immigrant, is chief executive of Los Angeles-based pipe manufacturer JM Eagle and a longtime American citizen.Wang 's friends and close business associates know better than to believe the story, "but the people who are not close to me and don't know me well are going to think of me now in a negative light. It could really hurt my reputation." The Garcetti piece also lit into Dominic Ng , Chief Executive of Pasadena-based East West Bank. And previous Daily Caller stories have taken aim at Frank Wu , the president of Queen's College, City University of New York, and Asian Americans involved with the mainstream news outlet the China Project. As tensions rise between the governments of the United States and China, the Daily Caller has leaned into narratives with a similar theme: Chinese and Taiwanese Americans with any connections to China are probably up to some unAmerican activities."If every Chinese American in a photo with any Chinese official is suspect, you're talking about every successful Chinese person," said Frank Wu, "this is about whether or not you have an Asian face."Wu himself became a target of accusations by the Daily Caller last December. That story went after an English language news site called the China Project. No solid facts underpin the innuendo. The article named Wu and other ethnic Asians who sit on the China Project's advisory board. They "appear to belong," the Daily Caller said, to a group called the Committee of 100. Wu says he is in fact a proud members of the committee, which was founded by architect I.M. Pei and cellist Yo-Yo Ma and comprises prominent Chinese Americans who work together to address political, cultural and economic issues between the U.S. and China.Wu, Ng, and Wang see the articles as part of a poisonous campaign to smear political opponents, an approach that pairs McCarthy-era Red Scare tactics with anti-Asian racism.At the same time, all three say they enjoy powerful positions that protect them to some extent from the worst forms of racism.Asian Americans in general have been known to keep a low profile in politics, but it is time to speak up. "We can't just be talking among ourselves in the Asian community, the outreach has to be broader. I'm worrying about being the silent majority," Ng said."We have to fight this," said Wang, who is contemplating a lawsuit. "If we don't fight it, who will?" Read the Los Angeles Times report: http://bit.ly/3GqwM8I Chinese Americans Fight for Their Place in Texas According to a report by the Texas Tribune on April 3, 2023, a mid-January Twitter post by Governor Greg Abbott alerted Chinese Americans across Texas that their rights might be trampled as state lawmakers rushed to burnish their geopolitical credentials.On January 15, the Republican governor told his 1 million followers he was ready to sign into law Texas Senate Bill 147 that would ban “citizens, governments & entities” of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from purchasing land in the state, in effect blocking some immigrants from becoming homeowners.The bill restricting land ownership was followed by kindred proposals to ban international college students from those same countries and to cut off Texans’ access to TikTok and another social media platform that’s become crucial for the Chinese diaspora living in the state to communicate with family in China.As the Legislature’s work has ramped up, the political headwinds have drafted Chinese Americans into defending their foothold in a state where many have lived for decades, and where Asian Americans have reliably made up the fastest-growing segment of population for years. They’ve grown fearful of a legislative culture that could feed challenges to the rights of Asian Texans, as well as Texans from the other targeted countries. “You can target foreign governments, you can target [the] foreign Chinese Communist Party, but you have to separate that from the individuals that are already in this country and protected by the Constitution,” said Hugh Li , president of the Austin Chinese-American Network and a naturalized citizen of 18 years. “This is our land too. This is our home too. So for the Texas Legislature to want to pass these kinds of bills targeting us and strip away our rights, it’s just not right.”More recently, House Bill 2206 was introduced to ban social media platforms “developed or provided” by entities in the four countries. The social media bill echoes federal efforts to scrutinize popular platforms like TikTok and WeChat over security concerns related to China’s access to Americans' data.The proposals have left it to Chinese Americans to delineate for lawmakers that their lives in Texas exist far apart from geopolitical considerations. At a House hearing in March, a contingent of Chinese Americans waited more than six hours to testify against the legislation that would ban social media platforms, detailing how they rely on WeChat to stay in touch with family. They held up screenshots of video chats between grandparents and grandchildren. One Texan grew emotional as they described how the bill would sever the “bridge for emotional connection” for many Chinese Americans.WeChat is used by 1.3 billion people every month. In China, the platform is reportedly heavily censored and serves as an instrument for mass government surveillance. In households across the state, however, Chinese Americans primarily rely on the messaging and calling tools available through WeChat to connect with family members and friends back in China, where the use of the app is ubiquitous and where other social media or messaging platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp are banned.In 58 pages of testimony submitted in writing to the committee, Texans described WeChat as an “indispensable lifeline connecting us to our families, friends, and culture.” Some described how the use of WeChat in the U.S. has grown into an important tool for businesses connecting with supplies overseas. It was crucial for Chinese restaurants fighting to stay afloat at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s used by day cares to send notifications to parents and by community groups to distribute news, notifications and even weather warnings that otherwise would not be translated from English. The app even serves as a platform for Bible studies among Chinese-speaking churches.Others raised claims of unconstitutionality and questioned why Chinese Americans would be targeted in what they described as an affront to their First Amendment and equal protection rights. Federal courts blocked the Trump administration’s 2020 efforts to block TikTok and WeChat in the United States through executive orders, though the effort has more recently gained bipartisan support in Congress, where national security concerns have reverberated among lawmakers from both parties. Some described how the use of WeChat in the U.S. has grown into an important tool for businesses connecting with supplies overseas. It was crucial for Chinese restaurants fighting to stay afloat at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s used by day cares to send notifications to parents and by community groups to distribute news, notifications and even weather warnings that otherwise would not be translated from English. The app even serves as a platform for Bible studies among Chinese-speaking churches.Others raised claims of unconstitutionality and questioned why Chinese Americans would be targeted in what they described as an affront to their First Amendment and equal protection rights. Federal courts blocked the Trump administration’s 2020 efforts to block TikTok and WeChat in the United States through executive orders, though the effort has more recently gained bipartisan support in Congress, where national security concerns have reverberated among lawmakers from both parties. “It’s just a reminder that the place of immigrants in this country and this state is so tenuous, and it can all be taken away so easily,” she said.Read the Texas Tribune report: http://bit.ly/40RvbRi Online Videos and Photos of the ISSCO 30th Anniversary Conference ISSCO, the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, was established in 1992. On November 11-12, 2022, ISSCO convened its 30th Anniversary Conference in San Francisco.Five videos from the plenary sessions of the conference are online: Keynote by Mae Ngai and Welcome (1:22:08). Introduction: Lok SIU; Welcome: Raka RAY, LIN Rupeng, LI Minghuan, WANG Gungwu, and Ling-chi WANG; Keynote: Mae M. NGAI Racial Profiling and Discrimination against Chinese American Scientists and Engineers (1:39:06). Speakers: Sherry CHEN, Xiaoxing XI, Gang CHEN, and Jeremy S. WU; Moderator: Lillian K. SING The Pandemic and Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S. (1:30:43). Welcome: Lok SIU; Speakers: Russell JEUNG, John WALSH, and Cynthia CHOI, Moderator: Henry DER Changing US-China Relations and Their Impact on Chinese in the U.S. and Elsewhere (1:27:43). Speakers: Julie TANG, Gordon CHANG, K.J. NOH, and George KOO; Moderator: Don TOW; Concluding remarks: Lok SIU ISSCO Founders Roundtable (54:24). Moderator: Madeline HSU; Slideshow by: Wei LI; Speakers: Ling-chi WANG, Karen HARRIS, Emmanuel MA MUNG, and Teresita ANG SEE An album of photos from the conference is available here: https://bit.ly/3mj3py2 . If you would like to use the photos for any purpose, please contact the photographer Joyce Xi at joyceyxi11@gmail.com . Joyce can also provide higher-resolution files. "Inference Using Non-Random Samples? Stop Right There!" Surveys are commonly used to measure the current state of affairs or the opinions of a group of people. One of the most significant scientific innovations at the end of the nineteenth century is the introduction of probability-based or random sampling. According to the Significance Magazine in October 2021 ,"statistical inference is a powerful concept. Among other things, it allows us to infer information about a population based on a sample of data from that population. To make appropriate inferences from sample to population, certain pre-conditions need to be met. One of these pre-conditions is that data come from a random sample." Incredibly, a small random sample of say 1,000 individuals would allow statistical inference to be made about the Chinese American population of about 5.5 million within some margin of measurable sampling error.However, random surveys can be costly, laborious, and difficult to conduct. Non-random surveys are also conducted, but the scope of inference is limited to the survey respondents. The temptation to go beyond this boundary is strong. The Significance article observes that inferential statistics should not be used in non-random studies. "However, in many cases, they are. A lack of awareness of the need for random sampling among researchers leads them to go through the motions... Even when researchers themselves do know this, they can find themselves compelled to perform inference by ignorant referees.""in short, if we do not start with a random sample, turning what we have into one is challenging or even impossible. In such cases, we should accept the hard truth that statistical inference is not possible. We must simply report what the data show - and refuse to push them statistically further," the Significance article concludes.In a separate article by Nature in December 2021 which examined the estimates of first-dose COVID-19 vaccine uptake in US adults from 9 January to 19 May 2021, it was shown "how a survey of 250,000 respondents can produce an estimate of the population mean that is no more accurate than an estimate from a simple random sample of size 10. Our central message is that data quality matters more than data quantity, and that compensating the former with the latter is a mathematically provable losing proposition." Next time you see the release of a survey and its results, you may want to look deeper into how the inferences are made on the respondents only or an entire population. Subscribe to The APA Justice Newsletter Complete this simple form at https://bit.ly/2FJunJM to subscribe. Please share it with those who wish to be informed and join the fight. View past newsletters here: https://bit.ly/APAJ_Newsletters . Back View PDF April 10, 2023 Previous Newsletter Next Newsletter

The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus issued a Messaging Guidance on Rhetoric and Anti-Asian Hate to the U.S. House of Representatives. July 16, 2021 On July 16, 2021, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) issued a Messaging Guidance on Rhetoric and Anti-Asian Hate to all members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The letter states that "[t]ime and time again history has taught us the horrific impact xenophobic rhetoric can have on Asian Americans. This is reason enough to end the use of rhetoric that stokes hatred. But it is notable that this type of rhetoric isn’t only dangerous to Asian Americans, it’s harmful to the United States’ long-term interests. Our country faces global security challenges such as climate change, supply chain disruption, and nuclear proliferation that require collaborative bi-lateral and multi-lateral solutions. Our leaders’ use of xenophobic rhetoric undermines our ability to work with other countries to pursue those solutions." 2021/07/16 CAPAC: Messaging Guidance on Rhetoric and Anti-Asian Hate The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus issued a Messaging Guidance on Rhetoric and Anti-Asian Hate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Previous Next CAPAC Issues Messaging Guidance on Anti-Asian Hate

Newsletter - #84 State Of Insecurity Report; 09/13 Meeting Summary/Video; "China Initiative" Unraveling #84 State Of Insecurity Report; 09/13 Meeting Summary/Video; "China Initiative" Unraveling Back View PDF September 17, 2021 Previous Newsletter Next Newsletter

July 6, 2020 On July 6, 2020, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a directive on student visas that would compel international students to leave the United States if their coursework were entirely online. Since the U.S. has so far failed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. schools are planning to offer classes entirely online this fall. In effect, the ICE directive will negatively impact hundreds of thousands of international students directly and various segments of the U.S. society indirectly. Reactions against the proposed rule were broad, swift and strong. A week after the announcement, a federal judge in Boston announced on July 14, 2020 that the Trump administration has rescinded its policy. However, there were still reports that the White House may focus on applying the rule to new students instead of existing students. On July 24, ICE introduced the new rule to new students. Previous Next New ICE Directive on Student Visas

Newsletter - #65 06/07 Meeting Summary; WH/Hill Meetings; Anming Hu Trial; Government Transparency; + #65 06/07 Meeting Summary; WH/Hill Meetings; Anming Hu Trial; Government Transparency; + Back View PDF June 10, 2021 Previous Newsletter Next Newsletter

Newsletter - #351 C100-USCET-APA Justice Webinar Series; "Domicile;" Deportations; SCOTUS Ruling Alarm;+ #351 C100-USCET-APA Justice Webinar Series; "Domicile;" Deportations; SCOTUS Ruling Alarm;+ In This Issue #351 · C100-USCET-APA Justice Joint Webinar Series Announced · Just Security : DOJ’s Arguments Regarding Domicile and Unauthorized Immigrants · Deportations in Georgia and Missouri Echo Another Era in California · Supreme Court Ruling Raises Alarm Over Racial Profiling · News and Activities for the Communities C100-USCET-APA Justice Joint Webinar Series Announced At the APA Justice monthly meeting on September 8, 2025, moderated by Co-organizer Vincent Wang 王文奎 , Cindy Tsai 蔡欣玲 , Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Committee of 100 (C100), and Rosie Levine 卢晓玫 , Executive Director of the U.S.-China Education Trust (USCET), announced the launch of a new webinar series co-hosted by C100, USCET, and APA Justice . The series, Global Tensions, Local Dimensions: Navigating the United States–China Relationship , will examine how U.S.–China relations directly affect Chinese Americans and the broader AAPI community. Rising geopolitical tensions have fueled racial profiling, policy challenges, and community concerns—underscoring how global dynamics translate into local realities. The series seeks to foster dialogue, deepen understanding, and empower communities by convening voices from policy, academia, advocacy, and civic life. The first of three sessions will take place via Zoom on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 8 PM ET . It will feature Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch 張之香 , the first U.S. ambassador of Asian descent and USCET’s founder and executive chair, in conversation with Ambassador Gary Locke 骆家辉 , Chair of C100, former U.S. ambassador to China, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and former governor of Washington. They will be joined by Professor Jessica Chen Weiss 白潔曦 , David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). The discussion will highlight the historical role of people-to-people exchanges in shaping the U.S.–China relationship and the risks posed today as educational and cultural ties shrink amid heightened tensions. Importantly, it will also examine the impact on Asian American communities—especially Chinese Americans—who increasingly find themselves caught in the crossfire of U.S.–China relations. Please mark your calendars . Additional details will be shared in the forthcoming summary of the monthly meeting. Just Security : DOJ’s Arguments Regarding Domicile and Unauthorized Immigrants On September 8, 2025, Just Security published " Taking Stock of the Birthright Citizenship Cases, Part III ," the third of a series of articles concerning the ongoing challenges to the legality of President Donald Trump ’s Executive Order No. 14160 (the “Citizenship Order”), which declares that two categories of persons born in the United States to foreign nationals are not birthright citizens.The DOJ contends that a child born in the United States is not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" unless the child is "domiciled" in the U.S. at the time of birth. This argument seeks to exclude children born to foreign nationals who are not domiciled in the U.S. from automatic citizenship.However, the article critiques this stance, highlighting that the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) established that birthright citizenship is not contingent upon domicile. Justice Horace Gray 's opinion in Wong Kim Ark 黄金德 emphasized that the Citizenship Clause grants citizenship to all persons born in the U.S., regardless of their parents' domicile, as long as the parents are not foreign diplomats or enemy forces. The DOJ's reliance on domicile is viewed as a misinterpretation of the Court's ruling.The article also addresses the DOJ's assertion that a newborn's "primary allegiance" must be to the U.S. to be considered "subject to the jurisdiction." This concept of "primary allegiance" is criticized for lacking historical or legal support and for being inconsistent with the principles established in Wong Kim Ark.In conclusion, the article argues that the DOJ's arguments regarding domicile and primary allegiance are legally unfounded and do not align with established constitutional interpretations of birthright citizenship.Read the full Just Security article here: https://bit.ly/42cPDPi . Read background and timeline visualization of the Birthright Citizenship issue here: https://www.apajusticetaskforce.org/birthright-citizenship . Deportations in Georgia and Missouri Echo Another Era in California According to multiple outlets including AP News , BBC , CNBC , PBS , TIME , and Washington Post . federal agents conducted the largest single-site immigration raid in U.S. history at Hyundai’s Ellabell, Georgia facility on September 4, 2025, arresting 475 workers—more than 300 of them South Koreans. At least 10 Chinese nationals, three Japanese, and one Indonesian were among the remaining workers who had been restrained in handcuffs and ankle chains at their arrest.The Georgia plant is home to South Korean companies Hyundai and LG Energy Solution, which are building a battery manufacturing plant together. The $7.6 billion Hyundai plant employs more than 1,200 people. The company began building its manufacturing plant in 2022 and started making electric vehicles less than two years later, making the plant one of the largest economic developments in the state.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Steven Schrank declared all were “illegally present in the United States.”Immigration lawyer Charles Kuck disputed that claim, saying most were engineers and equipment installers on short-term B-1 business visas, “never longer than 75 days,” and that it would take “three to five years to train someone in the U.S.” to perform the same work. Advocates described drones, helicopters, and military vehicles, with one worker recalling: “We felt like we were being followed as animals.”The raid triggered diplomatic fallout. South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun called it “a very serious matter,” and lawmaker Cho Jeongsik warned it could undermine Korean investment. Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) and Georgia’s Congressional Delegation jointly condemned the operation as “senseless actions [that] rip apart families, hurt the economy, and undermine the trust of our global partners.” The South Korea government has arranged a charter plane to bring home 316 of its detained nationals on September 10, but President Donald Trump temporarily delayed the repatriation to explore whether they could stay in the United States to educate and train American workers. The raid halted construction of the Hyundai-LG battery plant, raising concerns about U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. Experts argue the U.S. lacks a visa pathway for highly specialized foreign workers needed to install advanced equipment and train American staff. Critics say the crackdown undermines Trump’s economic agenda by discouraging investment and costing future U.S. jobs, while labor advocates highlight Hyundai’s history of labor violations. The plant’s $7.6B future is now uncertain.The Asian American community responded to the Hyundai raid and deportation with outrage, condemnation of the federal tactics, and solidarity with immigrant workers. Advocacy groups like Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta denounced the raid as "absolutely abusive," pointing to heavily armed agents, threats, and shackling of workers.Activists collaborated across Asian and Latino communities to criticize corporations like Hyundai for exploiting immigrant labor and to organize "Know Your Rights" workshops and support networks for families affected by the incident. The raid has also sparked fear and concern within the community, with some Korean nationals being deported and business owners worrying about the economic impact and potential exodus of residents. Separately, on September 8, KCBD reported that Donna Brown , a 58-year-old Irish legal permanent resident in Missouri, was detained by ICE over a $25 bad check written a decade earlier—an offense she had repaid and served probation for. Married with children and grandchildren, she has lived in the U.S. nearly 50 years. Her husband, veteran Jim Brown , called the detention “egregious,” saying “you don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers.”According to Reuters , Stephen Miller , the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, in May demanded that the leaders of ICE ramp up deportations, setting a goal of 3,000 daily arrests.From global corporations to small family farms, the Georgia and Missouri cases reveal how sweeping deportation tactics and quotas ripple across lives and communities. They highlight not only the economic and diplomatic costs of such enforcement, but also the human toll. Together, they force a reckoning with whether America will uphold its identity as a nation of immigrants—or abandon it in the name of political expediency. According to the LA Times , Trump immigration raids mirror violent 1800s purges that forcibly expelled Chinese immigrants from Northern California using mob tactics.In Smith River, California, the grave of Dock Rigg (born Oo Dock ), a Chinese immigrant who lived from about 1850–1919, quietly memorializes a dark chapter of U.S. history. Dock was one of the few Chinese allowed to remain in Del Norte County after violent 1880s purges that expelled hundreds of Chinese residents across Northern California, part of the era’s Chinese Exclusion laws. Working as a cook and ranch hand, Dock lived largely in isolation but was remembered as kind and humorous. His headstone, placed decades after his death, symbolizes both his perseverance and the respect of his community. Today, cities like Eureka, San Jose, and San Francisco are formally acknowledging and memorializing historic anti-Chinese violence, while groups like Humboldt Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI) recover and honor the stories of individuals like Dock. Supreme Court Ruling Raises Alarm Over Racial Profiling According to AsAmNews and the Guardian , a deeply controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision on September 8, 2025, has reignited fears of racial profiling across immigrant communities in Los Angeles and beyond. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court lifted restrictions on federal immigration patrols, allowing agents to resume “roving stops” that may take into account factors such as race, language, occupation, or location. While ethnicity alone cannot be the sole basis for a stop, critics argue the decision effectively opens the door to widespread discrimination. Civil rights groups immediately condemned the ruling. Advocates warned that it undermines constitutional protections and normalizes targeting of individuals based on appearance or perceived background. The ACLU of Southern California called the decision a “devastating step backward,” while local immigrant rights coalitions described it as a green light for harassment. Asian American leaders were quick to highlight that while Latino communities are often the most directly impacted, the threat extends across all immigrant groups. Asian Americans Advancing Justice called the ruling “dangerous,” stressing that it strips away hard-won protections and will subject U.S. citizens and immigrants alike to fear and intimidation. The AAPI Equity Alliance warned of a “terrorizing” effect that could isolate families, harm businesses, and destabilize community life. At its core, the ruling underscores the intimate connection between immigration enforcement and civil rights. As one advocate noted, “This isn’t just about who is undocumented. It’s about who looks or sounds foreign—and that’s all of us.” News and Activities for the Communities 1. APA Justice Community Calendar Upcoming Events: 2025/09/16-17 2025 AANHPI Unity Summit 2025/09/17-18 24th Annual Constitution Day2025/09/23 Committee of 100: Is Deglobalization Inevitable?2025/10/06 APA Justice Monthly Meeting2025/10/16 Bridging Nations: The Power of People-to-People Exchange in U.S.-China Relations2025/10/23 C100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative: Asian American Women in the LawVisit https://bit.ly/3XD61qV for event details. 2. In Memoriam: David Baltimore (1938-2025) David Baltimore (March 7, 1938 – September 6, 2025) was an American molecular biologist whose Nobel Prize–winning discovery of reverse transcriptase fundamentally altered our understanding of molecular biology and retroviruses—and laid the groundwork for advances in cancer and HIV research.Baltimore served as a prominent academic leader, including as president of Caltech (1997–2006) and Rockefeller University, and forming the Whitehead Institute, where he served as founding director (1982–1990). He emerged as a persuasive public voice on scientific ethics, recombinant DNA oversight, and policies surrounding AIDS, genome editing, and biotechnology. A celebrated mentor and institutional builder, Baltimore received many of science’s highest honors—he won the U.S. National Medal of Science (1999) and the Lasker Award (2021), among others—and trained generations of scientists whose contributions continue to shape biomedicine.He died of cancer at home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on September 6, 2025, at age 87. He is survived by his wife, Alice S. Huang , and their daughter. # # # APA Justice Task Force is a non-partisan platform to build a sustainable ecosystem that addresses racial profiling concerns and to facilitate, inform, and advocate on selected issues related to justice and fairness for the Asian Pacific American community. For more information, please refer to the new APA Justice website under development at www.apajusticetaskforce.org . We value your feedback. Please send your comments to contact@apajustice.org . Back View PDF September 12, 2025 Previous Newsletter Next Newsletter

Newsletter - #122 OSTP Hour; Senate Probes FBI; 4/4 Meeting; Sherry Chen Injustice; Video/Audio Reports #122 OSTP Hour; Senate Probes FBI; 4/4 Meeting; Sherry Chen Injustice; Video/Audio Reports Back View PDF March 31, 2022 Previous Newsletter Next Newsletter

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Newsletter - #206 9/11 Meeting; Bill Richardson/Wen Ho Lee; NO Alien Land Laws; FISA Reform; More News #206 9/11 Meeting; Bill Richardson/Wen Ho Lee; NO Alien Land Laws; FISA Reform; More News In This Issue #206 2023/09/11 APA Justice Monthly Meeting Bill Richardson and Dr. Wen Ho Lee 李文和 Reminder: Tell Congress NO To Discriminatory Land Laws Sign-On Letter: Asian Americans for FISA Reform News and Activities for The Communities 2023/09/11 APA Justice Monthly Meeting The next APA Justice monthly meeting will be held via Zoom on Monday, September 11, 2023, starting at 1:55 pm ET. In addition to updates by Nisha Ramachandran , Executive Director, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC); John Yang 杨重远 , President and Executive Director, Advancing Justice | AAJC; and Gisela Perez Kusakawa , Executive Director, Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF), confirmed and invited speakers include: Clay Zhu 朱可亮 (confirmed) , Partner, DeHeng Law Offices 德恒律师事务所; Founder, Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance 华美维权同盟, to report on the latest developments of the lawsuit against Florida's discriminatory alien land law Deborah Seligsohn (confirmed) , Senior Associate (non-resident), Center for Strategic and International Studies; Assistant Professor, Villanova University on the case for US-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) https://bit.ly/3OMc8En Steve Kivelson (confirmed), Prabhu Goel Family Professor of Physics Luke Blossom Professor, Stanford University, on the joint letter with Professor Peter Michelson to President Joe Biden and members of the National Security Council on renewing the STA https://bit.ly/44xTNPX Sudip Parikh (invited) , Chief Executive Officer and Executive Publisher Science Family of Journals at AAAS, on moving open science, basic research, and US-China collaboration forward in today's environment. Ting Wu (invited) , Advisor, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Office of the Chief of Staff, The White House, on the letter to the President and more The virtual monthly meeting is by invitation only. If you wish to join, either one time or for future meetings, please contact one of the co-organizers of APA Justice - Steven Pei 白先慎 , Vincent Wang 王文奎 , and Jeremy Wu 胡善庆 - or send a message to contact@apajustice.org On August 24, 2023, Stanford University Professors Steven Kivelson and Peter Michelson sent a letter to President Joe Biden and the Members of the US National Security Council to express their strong support for renewing the Agreement Between the United States and China on Cooperation in Science and Technology , which was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping on January 31, 1979. Their letter was endorsed by over 1,000 faculty and scholars from many US universities including multiple Nobel Laureates, members of the National Academies, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read the letter: https://bit.ly/44xTNPX . Read the APA Justice coverage: https://bit.ly/3E9NmI8 Bill Richardson and Dr. Wen Ho Lee 李文和 On September 1, 2023, Bill Richardson , 75, passed away in Chatham, Massachusetts. He was a Member of US House of Representatives (1983-1997), US Ambassador to the United Nations (1997-1998), Secretary of Energy (1998-2001), and Governor of New Mexico (2003-2011).Born in Pasadena, California, in 1947 to a Spanish-born mother and a Nicaraguan-born father, Bill Richardson grew up in Mexico City before attending boarding school in Massachusetts. In 2002, he became the only Hispanic leader of a US state when he won the New Mexico governorship.By any measure, Bill Richardson was an extraordinary American politician and diplomat. He won admiration for his commitment to securing the release of US citizens detained around the world, including journalists Laura Ling 凌志美 ( Lisa Ling 凌志慧 's sister) and Euna Lee 유나리 from North Korea in 2009 and basketball star Britney Griner from Russia last year. In 2011 he launched his non-profit foundation, the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, where he renewed his work seeking the release of detained Americans. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times.Bill Richardson's tenure as Secretary of Energy was marred by the prosecution of Dr. Wen Ho Lee 李文和 , a Chinese American nuclear physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who was wrongly accused of spying for China. Dr. Lee was later cleared of espionage charges and released with an apology from Judge James Parker, who passed away last year . Eventually, Dr. Lee won a $1.6 million settlement against the federal government and several news outlets for the accusation. While admitting to making some mistakes, Bill Richardson did not apologize for his role in the matter which remains a deep wound in the Asian American community.In a LinkedIn post, Parag Mehta , a staff member of the first White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) under the Clinton Administration in 1999, recalls his experience in working with Bill Richardson to draft an “apology” he could use in his confirmation hearings for Secretary of Commerce under the Obama Administration. Parag Mehta tried three times to craft language for the Governor. Each time, he was rebuffed because Bill Richardson did not want to use words like “sorry” or “apologize.” The issue became moot when he withdrew his nomination. Dr. Jeremy Wu , Founder and Co-Organizer for APA Justice, served as National Ombudsman and Director of the Office of the Ombudsman under Secretary Bill Richardson at the Department of Energy. References and Links: Wikipedia: Bill Richardson https://bit.ly/44AAe9S Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia: My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy https://amzn.to/2MlV7Ak 2023/09/03 LinkedIn by Parag Mehta: Bill Richardson https://bit.ly/3Ps8foB 2000/01 Department of Energy: Final Report: Task Force Against Racial Profiling http://bit.ly/2T8UGvJ 2000/01/19 Department of Energy: Richardson Releases Task Force Against Racial Profiling Report and Announces 8 Immediate Actions https://bit.ly/3LnXoYy Reminder: Tell Congress NO To Discriminatory Land Laws On August 25, 2023, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) put out a call for the public to tell Congress: Say NO to Discriminatory Land Laws."Dangerous laws are being introduced at the state and federal level right now that use 'national security' as an excuse to discriminate against immigrants from China. In Florida, for example, Governor DeSantis has banned many Chinese immigrants from buying a house in much of the state – a move that is both unconstitutional and unfortunately, not new."This type of 'alien land law' should sound alarm bells for all of us. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, to the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, to the ongoing post-9/11 surveillance of Black and Brown communities – we’ve seen how such racist policies created under the guise of 'national security' are racist and used to scapegoat entire communities."We cannot allow history to repeat itself: Tell your Members of Congress to speak out against any law that falsely equates Chinese people with the Chinese government."Thanks to ACLU, take one easy step to tell Congress NO to discriminatory land laws at https://bit.ly/3qRsFOh Sign-On Letter: Asian Americans for FISA Reform Advancing Justice | AAJC, Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF), and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) are reaching out to request your support for a critical issue that impacts our Asian American community – reforming Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which will expire at the end of this year unless Congress reauthorizes it. AAJC/AASF/CAA have included a draft letter (see link: https://bit.ly/3RbMIlh ) that is set to be shared with members of Congress regarding the urgent need for FISA reform. This letter highlights the concerning history of how Asian Americans have been disproportionately affected by national security programs that have often been fueled by bias, prejudice, and unchecked surveillance. The proposed reforms in the letter seek to ensure that such abuses do not continue and that our communities are treated fairly and justly.As a partner who shares concerns for the well-being and protection of our Asian American community, AAJC/AASF/CAA request your support by signing onto this letter by completing the sign-on form. The deadline to sign on is Thursday, September 7, at 5:00pm ET.For more information on FISA reform, check out the following resources: Advancing Justice-AAJC on FISA Section 702 reform ( https://bit.ly/464ca0l ) APA Justice webinar: "Perils of Warrantless Surveillance - The Case for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Reform" ( https://bit.ly/44ZCJ6o ) Foreign Affairs article: “The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance What’s at Stake as Congress Considers FISA Reform” ( https://bit.ly/3sGhQPN ) If you have questions about subsequent strategies surrounding Congressional outreach or require further information, please reach out to Andy Wong (CAA/Stop AAPI Hate) at andywong@caasf.org or Joanna Derman (AAJC) at jderman@advancingjustice-aajc.org . If you know a scholar who has been directly impacted and surveilled, please reach out to Gisela Perez Kusakawa at gpkusakawa@aasforum.org at AASF, which seeks to provide a voice to the Asian American and scholar community. News and Activities for The Communities 1. Current US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns Meets Former US Ambassador to China Gary Locke In a continuing series by the US mission in China, Ambassador Nicholas Burns meets with Ambassador Gary Locke 骆家辉 , the first Chinese-American Ambassador to China. Part 1. Ambassador Gary Locke shares what democracy means to him and reflects on government “of the people, by the people, for the people” (2:04) Part 2. Ambassador Gary Locke was not only the first Chinese American to serve as U.S. Ambassador to China, but also the first Chinese American governor in the continental U.S. He shares his experiences growing up and reflects on his decision to run for office. The United States is a nation of immigrants, and our diversity is a source of strength. (2:29) Part 3. Ambassador Gary Locke talks about how his immigration story and the greater story of U.S. immigration relates to democracy. (2:37) Part 4. Ambassador Gary Locke on how Americans and our government should promote democracy and democratic values in the world. (2:18) Part 5. Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke on why he is optimistic about the future of democracy globally and the potential of democratic values to elevate people all around the world. (1:41) Gary Locke is Chair of the Committee of 100 百人会. Watch Volume 4 of the series with Gary Locke: https://bit.ly/3PaKkZt 2. KTSF-TV26 Chinese Journal: Roles and Responsibilities of San Francisco FBI Field Office San Francisco FBI Field Office Special Agent in Charge Robert Tripp and Supervisory Special Agent L. Wu were interviewed in the Chinese Journal 華人叢刋 program by KTSF-TV26. They discussed their roles and responsibilities, including matters such as national security, interaction with local law enforcement, human trafficking, financial fraud, and anti-Asian hate crimes. The San Francisco Field Office has 800 agents and staff members. It is one of 56 FBI field offices across the country. The interview was conducted in Cantonese and English. Part 1 interview: https://bit.ly/3PpYc3m (9:01) Part 2 interview: https://bit.ly/3Lc5KnG (8:40) Part 3 interview: https://bit.ly/3Lazy4d (4:18) 3. 2023/09/19 Is National Voter Registration Day September 19, 2023, is National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) . Volunteers and organizations from all over the country will hit the streets in a single day of coordinated field, technology, and media efforts to register as many eligible voters as possible. Since 2012, over 5 million Americans have been registered to vote through NVRD efforts. APIAVote has long been a partner of NVRD, and will partner again this year.Join APIAVote on Thursday September 7 at 4pm EST to learn more about NVRD and how to implement a successful voter engagement program so we can mobilize AAPIs to the polls and display our collective power across the country. Register for the event: apia.vote/NVRD2023 .APA Justice has also posted the event at its newly created Community Calendar: https://bit.ly/45KGyga 4. Motion Denied: Yanping Chen 陈燕平 vs FBI et al Dr. Yanping Chen 陈燕平 brought a Privacy Act lawsuit against multiple federal agencies and personnel for allegedly leaking information to journalist Catherine Herridge , who published a series of investigative reports about Chen’s affiliations with the Chinese military on Fox News Network in 2017. After discovery failed to identify the source of the alleged leak, Chen issued subpoenas to Herridge and Fox. Both non-parties then moved to quash these subpoenas on the grounds that requiring them to divulge their source or sources violated the First Amendment’s qualified privilege for journalists and a federal common law newsgathering privilege. Last month, the District Court partially denied Herridge’s motion and permitted Chen to depose her. 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