Silent Lonesome Man

In the mid of March 2021, more than thirty Chinese factories were set ablaze by unknown assailants. Shortly aftermath, the Chinese government and its embassy in Myanmar condemned the arson attacks, accusing the perpetrators of being "instigated by the West". The condemnation possibly drew into the protesters, who are actively fighting against the junta since the 1 February coup. In the end, it was mocked by many Burmese online users for its hypocrisy. Yet, the reaction of China is nothing surprising. In fact, it is revealing the true paranoia of a totalitarian regime. China, now the world's most powerful dictatorship, is facing an unwanted challenge in Myanmar. Despite its attempts to whitewash history, the protest in Myanmar makes me questioning back what is China behaving, for certain. This is definitely not the only moment we see China's grotesque propaganda methods, it also helps us to see the maniac level of the Chinese regime: a regime that is paranoid of everyt...

  The murder of six Asian women by a white racist in Atlanta seriously rattled my emotions. I knew that anti-Asian sentiment has always had a long history in the United States since 19th century, but never thought it would exacerbate so far during the COVID-19 pandemic. It occurred since the former President Donald Trump frequently repeated the speeches of "Chinese virus" or "Wuhan virus", but has no clear insight about Asian Americans. Subsequently, Trump's ignorance inflamed the racist fervour among the racist segments, which had been greatly blessed by Donald Trump's four years reign, to spread its anti-Asian hatred. And when Joe Biden became President, the sentiment exaggerated even further, as people injected with Trump's racist ideology found themselves insecure with Biden Administration. Yet, one group of Asian Americans have stayed deaf when widespread anti-Asian violence is happening. The Vietnamese Americans have, so far, demonstrated little to...

I grew up being Vietnamese, and I have a divisive family. A father who is a fervent anti-communist but drunk and violent, and a mother who herself is a high-ranking official working as a judge in a State Court in Hanoi, a caring woman but arrogant. Being born in such a unique family of a communist mother and an anti-communist father shaped my experience with both anti-communist Vietnamese and the pro-communist Vietnamese, and this made me have a clearer insight into the communist party that has reigned Vietnam ever since the Fall of Saigon in 1975, and the vast majority of Vietnamese abroad who are 80%, anti-communist. I don't think I am a bridge, but circumstances made me so. For me, I am always interested to see the opinions of Vietnamese Americans, the largest Vietnamese diaspora in the world. The history of Vietnamese immigration to the U.S. is just a recent contemporary one, yet pretty much connected to the tragic history of Vietnamese people. The Vietnam War, began from 1956-...