"The #PentagonPapers, chock full of damning revelations about America’s war in #Vietnam, caused a sensation when The New York Times published them in 1971. One revelation was that the CIA had funded and encouraged the 1963 #coup against, and #assassination of, the president of South Vietnam, #NgoDinhDiem.
"By 1963, the United States had sent thousands of U.S. soldiers to Vietnam to fight the northern communist government led by President #HoChiMinh. The U.S. initially supported Diem because he was fighting the north. However, Diem’s persecution of Buddhists made him an unpopular ruler, leading the Kennedy administration to doubt Diem’s ability to win the war. The coup and Diem’s assassination took place in early November 1963, just a few weeks before Kennedy’s assassination."
Senior officials from #ASEAN, #China and the #UN Office on Drugs and Crime “have agreed to address transnational organized crime and trafficking in persons associated with casinos and scams,” according to UNODC.
@1dalm my brain popped up Lan from the classic cover of The Eye of The World as the answer for an East Asian Aragon. Probably not a wild coincidence, Jordan borrowed more than a bit for his character.
For immigrant & 2nd generation #AsianAmericans concealing one’s background can sometimes be a means of #survival, experts have said. New data shows just how prevalent this phenomenon is in the U.S.
According to a report released last week by the #PewResearchCenter - 1 in 5 #Asian Americans have hidden parts of their culture from non-Asians at some point in their lives.
usa has this Anti-Asian xenophobia propaganda campaign going, and it's ongoing for many many many years. the tip of the ice berg was during the height of the covid pandemic blaming Chinese for covid. Asians were getting beat up, harassed as collateral damage.
@sammi I know. Me & my Mom were victims of multiple #AntiAsian#racism over past 3 yrs. We've been spat at, egged, yelled at for being Chinese disease spreaders. Despite fact we're almost always masked & the haters are unmasked white ppl 🤡
“Made in Taiwan,” a cookbook that celebrates centuries of Taiwanese culture and foodways, opens with a quote from activist Peng Ming-min: “[Neither] race, language, nor culture form a nation, but rather a deeply felt sense of community and shared destiny.” Atlas Obscura writer Diana Hubbell tells us how the book is a love letter to the island nation known for its culture, people and cuisine. https://flip.it/BpTUk2 #Culture#Asia#Taiwan#Cooking#Foodie
"Hailed as a first of its kind in #Asia, the #law makes the crime punishable with #LifeImprisonment. It also seeks to provide assistance to victims, also called #desaparacidos, and their families through reparations, among others." #Philippines
“We’re now lagging behind our #ASEAN neighbors, notably #Vietnam. Did you know that the average Vietnamese is now richer than the average #Filipino? And by the way, their learning poverty rate is less than 2% – a stark contrast to our 90%.”
Also nearly spat out my coffee when he said that the countries in the region had "the same culture and values". (Yet he mentioned they were diverse too, weird.)
Dude we are so culturally and ideologically dissimilar that Western think tanks predicted we would be at war a few years after the end of the Vietnam War.
That's why you shouldn't get your info from YouTube 😂