{"id":371,"date":"2008-04-11T00:56:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T04:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/04\/11\/chinese-neednt-support-china\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T00:56:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T04:56:57","slug":"chinese-neednt-support-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/04\/chinese-neednt-support-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese needn&#8217;t support China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is analogous to how people feel about the overwhelming electoral support African-Americans have been demonstrating for Barack Obama, but I&#8217;m bothered\/embarrassed\/angered by Chinese-Americans who came out yesterday in counter-protest to the anti-China rallies in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>To the best of my knowledge, the protesters were out there criticizing Chinese policies, not the Chinese people. And I know that when international tensions get heated, sometimes there&#8217;s fallout for that nation&#8217;s diaspora (just ask German-Americans in WWI, or Japanese-Americans in WWII), but in this particular case &#8212; given that the main issue concern human rights, not trade &#8212; I can&#8217;t see what the negative effect would have been for Chinese-Americans. (Human rights activists are not known for giving a lot of beat-downs, physical, verbal, or otherwise).<\/p>\n<p>So to counter-protest, and thus support the Chinese regime? Sorry folks, you&#8217;re on the wrong side of the issue here. And it&#8217;s embarrassing to have to assume that you&#8217;re on that side because of your ethnic heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is analogous to how people feel about the overwhelming electoral support African-Americans have been demonstrating for Barack Obama, but I&#8217;m bothered\/embarrassed\/angered by Chinese-Americans who came out yesterday in counter-protest to the anti-China rallies in San &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/04\/chinese-neednt-support-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}