The president declared that terrorism, the no.1 threat to Am.
since 2001, is no longer so. The big power competition is
back. China is now our nation's worst threat.
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General Mattis stated explicitly in the 3rd paragraph:
"
China is a strategic competitor using predatory economics to intimidate its neighbors while militarizing features in the South China Sea. Russia .....
North Korea .... Iran .... ISIS ...."
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3) Feb. 13, 18 FBI director Wray made
this statement in the US Senate:
" ..
the China threat is not just a whole-of-government threat,
but a whole-of-society threat on their end. And I
think it's
going to take a WHOLE-OF-SOCIETY response by us."
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A group of 14 AsAm orgs., led by Committee of 100, wrote to Director Wray requesting a meeting to clarify his statement. 80-20 EF told the group that without hinting the possible political repercussion to come from our community, if he didn't meet with us
, the letter was politically too naive to be effective and refused
to co-sign. 7 months later, Director Wray still has not even bothered to reply to that group. Handling politics requires political know-how.
The
WHOLE-OF- SOCIETY Approach Being Implemented!
4) May 24, 18 The U.S. House passed a law, which would have adversely
impacted
any
Chinese Ams having held
a
temporary job in China,
Hong Kong &
Macau. This law was so ill-thought-out that it violated the
US
Constitution,
besides
smelling like the beginning of a modern
version of the
"Chinese
Exclusion
Act."
When 80-20 learned about its passage, it
worked behind the
scenes
to defeat it by inducing the Senate to reject
that law. Again, 80-20
proved its political effectiveness.
5) Aug, 8, 18 Pres. Trump,
in a meeting with many business leaders, called
'
most Chinese students in the U. S. spies,' according to "
P
olitico".
The
White House
never denied
that statement. But some
Chinese-
Am.
Republicans
wrote me saying it's not true. Sigh! How ignorant!
6), 7), 8) ..., etc.
Many more instances of bad news will come. We've forecast that before, & were unfortunately right. Our government is imple-menting a whole-of-society approach against Chinese nationals, and
Chinese/Asian Ams will suffer collateral damage.
We are eager to help make America stronger. But we need to worry about 2 aspects of these developments
:
a) Are we to adopt China's totalitarian whole-of-society approach to counter
China
? Would it be consistent with American values? Is it ironic?
b) The whole-of-society approach will without doubt cause collateral
damage. H
as Director
Wray found a way to differentiate
Chinese
Americans
from Chinese
nationals on the street, in classrooms, eating in
restaurants, traveling on airplanes
?
Might it even spill into our upward
mobility in jobs and our
children's admission to schools and colleges?
Indeed, may one expect to differentiate Vietnamese-, Japanese-, or Cambodian-Americans
from Chinese nationals? Do we remember that
Vincent
Chin was killed
because the murderers took him to be a Japanese?
When India becomes competitive economically with America, will there
be a whole-of-society approach to guard against Indian
nationals, and
will Indian-Ams then share the fate of today's Chinese-Ams?
UNITE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND TOGETHER ADOPT POLITICALLY EFFECTIVE MEASURES. Unite whether we are Republicans or Democrats, East Asian-, South East Asian- or South Asian-Americans.
We urgently need the strength of UNITY.
S. B. Woo