William Otis, adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and former member of the Bush administration, was announced as one of President Donald Trump’s nominees for the U.S. Sentencing Commission — a bipartisan agency that dictates federal sentencing guidelines — earlier this month.

情人节前一天，美国参议院聚到一起，开始一年一度对于“美国最大安全威胁”问题的听证会。FBI作为联邦情报机构，当然需要在会上做出汇报。然而令人震惊的是，新任FBI局长Chris Wray在报告完老生常谈的“俄罗斯威胁”与“朝鲜核威胁”问题后，却出人意料的捅了个大篓子：他将中国学生称为“威胁”，还爆料说FBI目前正在积极调查(actively investigating)一些中国政府组织的、以促进中美学者之间对话的学术团体。

这一切都怪佛罗里达州共和党参议员Marco Rubio起了个头。他向Wray询问了“中国学生对美国国家安全构成的反情报风险，特别是在数学和科学界的高级项目中。”然后Wray就开始了他的表演：他表示中国正在使用多种“非传统的科技与情报收集器”(non-traditional collectors)，不仅仅是在商界，还有学术领域。

“不仅仅是主要城市，还有小城市，基本上覆盖了全部学科。我认为学术界对于这方面的天真程度造成了这个问题”，Wray说道。“因此，我们试图做的一件事是将中国威胁视为不仅仅是对政府威胁，而是对全社会的威胁，我认为这需要我们采取全社会的对策。因此，不仅是情报界，我们需要学术界和商界也提高相关意识。”

据美国侨报网编译称，托马斯ⷩ(Thomas Nguyen）的成长经历很可能反映了许多在美国南部长大的亚裔群体的生活。20世纪80年代，得州本德堡县（Fort Bend County）还基本都是白人社区，许多当地的孩子甚至都没见过亚裔面孔。阮回忆，他的父母是1975年赴美国的。阮说，(薛家岛在线 www.xuejiadao.net)，那个时候，他经常因为人们对亚裔的刻板印象而遭到嘲笑。但如今，快速增长的人口亚裔，正改变美国南部地区。

　　《赫芬顿邮报》（Huffington Post）报道称，类似的故事在亚裔群体中并不少见。但现在，亚裔已成为美国增长最快的族群。加州大学河滨分校的政策研究项目“亚裔美国人与太平洋岛民”（AAPI）数据显示，美国南部地区的亚裔人口增长速度最快。

　　根据亚美公义促进中心（Asian Americans Advancing Justice）对美国人口普查局（U.S。 Census Bureau）的数据进行分析得出，2000年至2010年间，美国南部地区亚裔数量增加了69%。

Asian American advocacy groups are blasting FBI Director Chris Wray for telling Congress that Chinese students in the United States may be covertly gathering intelligence for their government back home.

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Washington, D.C. – Today, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies commended U.S. Senator Kamala Harris’s (D-Calif.) appointment of Rohini Kosoglu as her new chief of staff. The Beat reported that Kosoglu is currently the only Asian American woman serving as chief of staff in the U.S. Senate.

Thirty-five groups representing Asian-Americans across the United States are calling on the two largest political parties to reject racist campaign rhetoric following a recent political ad by West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship that many say is offensive.

Blankenship, the former Chairman and CEO of Massey Energy, is facing five other candidates in the Republican primary in West Virginia on Tuesday, but he chose to attack Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Ahead of trade talks in China, Washington, D.C. has been putting pressure on Beijing by trying to limit Chinese investment in the U.S. and proposing to curb visas for Chinese researchers.

CGTN’s Jessica Stone reports.

Chinese-born scientist Sherry Chen got her job back this week in the U.S., after the government falsely accused her of espionage. But Asian-American advocates said her case may not be the last.

This week, the Pentagon banned the retail sale of smartphones made in China on U.S. military bases around the world.

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Washington, D.C. -- Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, responds to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States with the following statement:

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Washington, D.C. — Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) will host its 22nd American Courage Awards, an annual event honoring individuals, groups, or corporations for their extraordinary commitment to the cause of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) civil and human rights.

This year’s honorees are Ai-jen Poo, Hari Kondabolu, and Verizon. Cary Chow, a multimedia content creator and former ESPN anchor, will serve as the Master of Ceremonies.

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Civil Rights Leaders Discuss Implications of Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Leadership Conference Education Fund and ACLU co-hosted a telephone press briefing today to outline the broad implications of the recent Supreme Court decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

A recording of the press briefing can be found here.