Wendy Liu

The American citizenship that Vance seemed to suggest would be one with tiers, based on one’s genealogy in America. The earlier your family became American, even better with an ancestral home and a cemetery plot, the more American you are, and more rights you have in criticizing America.

Not sure what to eat for dinner one day, my Beijing nephew suggested ordering Subway.

The brain drain started during the first Trump administration, when the so-called China Initiative targeted Chinese scientists for spying.

Vance should know that it was not the “Chinese peasants” who stole jobs from the Americans; rather, it was American companies that placed orders of their products with Chinese manufacturers.

You can imagine how the news of VOA shut down brought cheers in China, where VOA was broadcast in English, Mandarin, as well as Tibetan and Uyghur languages.

Mao told his people that one had to smash everything to build anything new. He went ahead and dismantled China’s then government system, his version of a “deep state.”

Reducing demand is certainly not an easy task for the U.S., and it is as tough to reduce supply.

As The New York Times characterized it, this is a case of threats to national security vs protection of free speech.

Shenzhen has become more like Hong Kong economically as a financial and technology hub, and also as home of the EV giant BYD. Hong Kong has gone the other way, losing free speech and independence.

Win-win cooperation with China won't be easy with Trump talking about 60% trariffs on Chinese imports.