It’s amazing to think that it’s only been 35 years since Nixon first visited China and began the process of normalizing relations between the two countries. Mike Bloomberg, possibly the worlds most powerful mayor, is spending a few days kicking it with the Chinese and discussing everything from information freedom, urbanization, and global warming.
“Some people believe that by mid-century, as [much] as 75 percent of China’s population may be city dwellers,” he said. “Even an occasional visitor to China, like me, is struck by this rapid urbanization. It is one of the largest internal migrations by people in the history of the world.
“And unless it is planned for, it could accelerate the already alarming pace of global climate change, as well as other serious environmental challenges.”
To avoid accusations of lecturing his hosts, Bloomberg adopted a we’re-all-in-this-together approach.
“China and the US are both large consumers of energy,” he said, “and we have a responsibility to work together to put the brakes on climate change.”
The mayor also delivered greetings from his plucky 98-year-old mother, Charlotte, who didn’t feel like accompanying him on such a long trip but told him to “be sure to say hello to the Chinese people for me.”
He did – and in Chinese.
I doubt the mayors of Flint, MI or Portland, ME would get a similar reception from China if they were to deliver the same speech. On the flip-side, I don’t see the mayors of Tokyo or Beijing flying into NY to warn us of our over-consumption or irresponsible foreign policy. Ah, must be nice to be a billionaire.
California, has come under fire since the council voted 8-3 on Nov. 20 to call the strip of about 200 businesses “Saigon Business District.” “I have no idea why she went against the will of the people,” said San Jose attorney Minh Dovan, who attended Sunday’s four-hour rally at the American G.I. Forum in San Jose. “She lost a lot of political capital.” Sunday’s crowd was one of the largest in San Jose in recent years to address a municipal issue. By a nearly unanimous show of hands, Little Saigon supporters in the auditorium voted to send a letter to the council asking the city to vote again on the issue. If that doesn’t work, Little Saigon boosters will ask Nguyen to resign. If she doesn’t, they vowed, they will launch a recall. “The community is outraged,” said Barry Hung Do.”
I was doing a search on “Asian Americans” for any of the latest news, and came across this one in The Harvard Crimson: “
(Update from the Editor, 1/15/08: 
initiative begun by the Anti-Defamation League, about 50 leaders from the Chinese, Filipino, Japanese and Korean communities — the four largest Asian population groups in the county — met Wednesday at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo for dinner, a celebration of Hanukkah, some frank discussion and talks by diplomats from Israel, Japan and South Korea. It was the second event since the Asian Jewish Initiative was launched in June in Chinatown. During that meeting, which dealt mostly with demographics, some Jewish leaders were surprised to learn that there were three times as many Asians as Jews in the county. Hanukkah is a “perfect time,” said Faith Cookler, chairwoman of the initiative, to bring people from different traditions together because the holiday is associated with “tolerance, with freedom — freedom from persecution.””
When December 1st rolled around, otherwise known as World AIDS Day, I didn’t think too much about it. Granted that I’ve been involved in one shape or form in HIV/AIDS prevention among the queer Asian men’s community for over 10 years, first in LA doing some work with 
don’t know or remember James Kim, he was a Senior Editor at 
Ever since I read in 
