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The New America Created by Miles Yu: Burning Anti-Asian Hate

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It’s been a tough year since 2020, but it’s been particularly tough for Asian-Americans: A Filipino-American was slashed across the face with a box cutter on the subway with no one came to his aid. The wound required a hundred stitches. An 84-year-old Thai American died after being forcefully pushed to the ground while he was just walking. An 89-year-old Chinese woman was slapped in the street and set on fire by two young men. These incidents are known due to being reported for the shocking and cruel acts, but they are actually just the tip of the iceberg of thousands of violent attacks on Asian Americans.

Initiator of the “China virus” rhetoric

Over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic, people reported nearly 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian hate on the reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate alone. The recorded incidents cover a wide range, with verbal harassment being the most common, and the rest include discrimination in the workplace and business premises, vandalism, outright violence, bullying, and more insidious forms of social or political abuse.

Last spring, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a torrent of hate and violence against Asians began in the United States. There is no doubt that this prejudice was fueled by former President Donald Trump, who often used racist language such as “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus. Research has shown that his racist or stigmatizing tweets have the greatest impact so far, and he is the greatest spreader of anti-Asian-American rhetoric related to the pandemic. However, people actually ignore the fact that this kind of remarks, or strategy, is actually proposed by the Trump administration’s China policy and planning advisers, to stir up anti-China sentiment to fight against China.

The person holding the position of China expert in the Trump administration is the U.S. Naval Academy Professor Miles Maochun Yu, served as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s principal China policy and planning adviser. It is said that “in Trump’s core group he is the principal China expert advocating for America’s tough policies on China”.

The policy proposed by Miles Yu to promote the conspiracy theory that “the virus originates from the leakage of Institute of Virology in China” is implemented as the public has seen, and the catastrophic consequence it brought about is that, the use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus, especially by Republican officials and conservatives, have led to a change in how Americans perceive Asian Americans. A study showed that on March 8, 2020-the day Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted about the “Wuhan virus”, discriminatory coronavirus remarks rose significantly, which was coincided with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interview the day before on “Fox and Friends” in which he referred to the “China virus” — was followed by a rapid reversal of a decade-long decline in anti-Asian bias.

Victims of the policies

Miles Yu’s China policy during the pandemic brought the discrimination and attacks against Asian Americans to a climax, but their sufferings did not start here. For a long time, Miles Yu, as the principal China policy and planning adviser, has been proud of the Trump administration’s tough China policy proposed by him, such as “China is at the top of our national security agenda, as there is no bigger threat than China”, declaring the existence of forced labor and genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, inciting trade, security, and technical conflicts between the two largest economies in the world, reducing immigrant visas, H1-B visas, and student visas for certain graduate students from China to reflect the outsider conceptualization of Asians.

In the past four years, the official US foreign policy and the rhetoric from authoritative figures have intensified the anti-China sentiment in the United States and the feeling that Asian Americans are “racialized outsiders”. Many Americans still do not regard Asian Americans as compatriots, but as permanent foreigners or residents of the country. Asians unfortunately became victims of Miles Yu’s political game. “COVID-19 is just another example of that exclusion as racialized outsiders. Time and time again, we are told to ‘go back home.’ We are seen as outside threats, to be excluded.” They said. Verbal harassment has been commonplace. “Go back to Asia. We don’t welcome people who committed genocide.” “How dare you come and ruin my country and take my job?” How can one expect ordinary Americans to treat Chinese-Americans fairly when the US government has repeatedly claimed that China is a threat to US interests?

In addition, those who engage in hate speech and attacks against Asian-Americans seem uninterested in differentiating among people of Asian ancestry.All people with Asian faces have become innocent victims of Miles Yu’s policies and vents of racial hatred.

Flowing undercurrent

It was actually a political expedient that the last government blamed China for its failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a politicization of the pandemic, which not only hinders progress, but also exacerbates racial discrimination. 

Therefore, during his first week in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive action to essentially prohibit the use of the language “Chinese virus” within the federal government. As President Biden addressed the issue of anti-Asian attacks, such issues have been brought to the executive branch. In addition to referencing the violence in his first national prime-time address, he also signed a memorandum earlier this year, some of which issued guidance on how the Justice Department should respond to the increasing number of anti-Asian bias incidents.

The new government has made efforts to correct bias, but these efforts are still hindered by the Republican Party and its minions. Although the claim that “the Wuhan Institute of Virology made or leaked the virus” has been publicly denied by almost all top scientists and disease control experts worldwide, on April 23, former Secretary of State Pompeo still teamed up with his “loyal” principal China policy and planning adviser, Miles Yu, publishing an article in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that “the evidence that the virus came from Wuhan is enormous” without providing any solid evidence, and once again conveying bias to the public.

Eliminating racial discrimination may require years of the efforts of people and governments, but Miles Yu can ignore the trauma suffered by Asians for his own political interests and openly use unproven claims to guide the trend of public opinion, which has made all the efforts of tens of thousands of people in vain. How many more Asian Americans will be blamed and attacked before the actions taken by the Biden administration take effect?

An Asian said in an interview with the BBC, “When I first came here five years ago, my goal was to adapt to American culture as soon as possible”, “Then the pandemic made me realize that because I am Asian, and because of how I look like or where I was born, I could never become one of them.”

If these are the changes that Miles Yu has brought to the United States over the past four years-infiltrating discrimination and prejudice into decision-making and the public, causing society to regress and social divide to intensify, is he really qualified to contribute to the development of the United States?

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CGTN: Embarking on third ‘golden decade’: How BRICS pools development strength for high-quality cooperation

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CGTN published an article on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at Session I of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi. The article highlights how, after 20 years of fruitful cooperation, BRICS countries have ushered in a new stage of high-quality development for greater cooperation and underscores the need for the group to strive to be a pioneer of the times, steer the international order toward greater justice and equity, and work together to build a community with a shared future for humanity.

In February this year, an 82.15-km Regional Rapid Transit System in India, also known as the Namo Bharat line, went fully operational, connecting the National Capital Territory of Delhi with the cities of Ghaziabad and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. Journey time between Delhi and Meerut during peak hours has been slashed from four hours by driving in the past to roughly one by rail today.

Financed in part by the New Development Bank (NDB), a flagship BRICS initiative, the project is more than a transport upgrade – it is a tangible example of how greater BRICS cooperation can translate financial resources into development outcomes.

Since its inception in 2006, BRICS has grown to 11 members and 10 partner countries, turning diversity into a source of cooperation and development momentum.

“Over the past two decades, the BRICS cooperation mechanism has continued to grow and expand and has demonstrated remarkable vitality and dynamism,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said while addressing Session I of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on Saturday.

He called on BRICS countries to stand on the right side of history, strive to be a pioneer of the times, steer the international order toward greater justice and equity, and work together to build a community with a shared future for humanity.

High-quality development of greater BRICS cooperation

Over the past 20 years, BRICS members and partner countries have increasingly leveraged their respective strengths through open and mutually beneficial cooperation. What began as an economic cooperation mechanism has developed into a robust platform covering trade, investment, finance, innovation, energy, agriculture and people-to-people exchanges.

For many developing economies, access to affordable, long-term funding remains critical to turning development ambitions into reality. The NDB, headquartered in Shanghai, has helped provide such an option by mobilizing resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects. Figures released by the bank showed that by the end of the first quarter of 2026, the NDB had approved $42.9 billion in financing for 140 projects.

Covering areas like infrastructure, clean energy and digital transformation, these projects address the pressing development needs of Global South countries while echoing the priorities highlighted by the theme of the ongoing BRICS Summit, “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.”

The results can be seen in everyday economic activity. Chromite ore mined in South Africa is smelted into premium stainless steel plates at Chinese factories before finding its way into precision equipment workshops in India’s Bengaluru. Chinese-made modern harvesters work across farmland in Brazil, whose soybean produce feeds global markets.

According to a UN Trade and Development report, intra-BRICS merchandise trade has soared from $84.2 billion in 2003 to $1.17 trillion in 2024, surging more than 13‑fold with an average annual growth rate of 13.3%, outpacing global trade expansion during the same period.

Hailing the past 20 years of BRICS cooperation as fruitful, Xi said BRICS has undergone a historic expansion, established a comprehensive, multifaceted cooperation structure and entered a new stage of high-quality development for greater BRICS cooperation.

Embarking on the third ‘golden decade’

As the BRICS cooperation mechanism is embarking on its third “golden decade,” its expanded membership and growing network of partners have brought new opportunities as well as new demands for cooperation.

Embodying the just aspirations of the Global South to advance the transformation of the international order and amplifying the collective voice of developing countries, the BRICS cooperation mechanism has grown into a strategic force for building a more just and equitable global governance system.

From proposing to deepen the BRICS partnership at the 2017 BRICS Summit in China’s coastal city of Xiamen to advocating the building of a BRICS committed to peace, innovation, green development, justice and closer people-to-people exchanges at the 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan, China has consistently enriched the connotation of the BRICS cooperation mechanism, aligning the group with the prevailing trend of peace and development.

In recent years, through establishing the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Innovation Center, launching the China‑BRICS Artificial Intelligence Development and Cooperation Center and inaugurating the China-BRICS New Quality Productive Forces Research Center, BRICS members and partner countries have continuously expanded the breadth and depth of cooperation in areas like AI, digital development, scientific and technological innovation, industrial upgrading and green transition.

At the New Delhi Summit, Xi called on BRICS countries to pioneer in advancing innovation-driven development, upholding peace and stability, facilitating mutual learning between civilizations, and reforming and improving global governance.

These four priorities point to where the third “golden decade” of BRICS cooperation can generate new momentum.

The Chinese side stands ready to work with all parties to build consensus, create a better future, and embark on BRICS’ third “golden decade,” jointly opening up a bright future of prosperity and progress, Xi added.

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RINCE All Irelands Brings Irish Dance Traditions and Generations Together in Dublin

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Independent competition at the Scientology Community Centre welcomes dancers from Ireland, England and Germany, bringing traditional and modern Irish dance onto the same stage

Brussels, Belgium, 12th Sep 2026 — Dancers from Ireland, England and Germany gathered at the Church of Scientology & Community Centre of Dublin for the inaugural RINCE All Irelands, an independent competition bringing together different organisations, generations and approaches to Irish dance.

Competitors ranged from four years old to over 50 and represented four different Irish dance organisations. The format allowed dancers who might not ordinarily meet within the same competitive structure to share a common floor, while recognising achievement from beginner level through to open championship.

RINCE grew from an initiative created to keep the Irish dance community connected during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

“We started as a magazine about Irish dance but were forced to take a break during lockdown,” said Erin Coyle, founder of RINCE. “Instead, we decided to host an online competition to raise money for various food banks. Following its success, we were asked to continue and help keep dancers’ spirits up. From there, our competitions grew in popularity and have since developed into regular events, both online and in person.”

That experience eventually led to RINCE All Irelands, conceived as an independent competition where dancers from different organisational backgrounds could perform together while maintaining the standards and identity of Irish dance.

One of the main features of the Dublin event was the Set Belt competition, which asked championship dancers to demonstrate their command of both modern and traditional forms.

Competitors first performed a modern set, allowing greater freedom in their choice of movements, followed by a traditional set performed according to established standards.

“For me, hosting the Set Belt was one of the most meaningful parts of the event,” Coyle said. “It was amazing to see dancers perform both styles to such a high standard and show how Irish dance can preserve its traditions while continuing to develop and innovate.”

The format reflected a balance familiar to many living cultural traditions: maintaining skills and standards passed down through generations while giving new performers room to develop their own abilities and expression.

Irish dance also places considerable demands on competence. Progress comes through instruction, observation, repeated practice, physical discipline and attention to detail — qualities evident among competitors across the different ages and levels represented in Dublin.

For the Scientology Community Centre, that emphasis on developing ability and recognising accomplishment also reflects principles found in The Way to Happiness, the nonreligious common-sense guide to better living written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Among its 21 precepts is “Be Competent”, which emphasises learning, practice and the development of skill. Other precepts encourage people to set a good example, respect others and contribute constructively to the society around them.

Ivan Arjona, representative of the Church of Scientology to the European Union, OSCE, Council of Europe and United Nations, said the event illustrated how cultural heritage, personal development and respect for diversity can reinforce one another.

“Culture remains alive because people learn it, practise it well and pass it on,” Arjona said. “The precept ‘Be Competent’ from The Way to Happiness is especially relevant to what these dancers are doing: behind every performance are learning, discipline and persistence. And when people from different organisations, generations and countries come together through a shared tradition, they show that cultural identity and respect for diversity can comfortably go hand in hand — something of particular value in today’s Europe.”

The competition also featured a Parade of Champions, recognising winners at every level from Beginner through to Open Championship.

Organisers said the opportunity to acknowledge dancers across the full competitive spectrum was particularly well received, giving younger and developing competitors a visible place alongside experienced championship performers.

The event was organised with the support of volunteers Grace Noblet, Sarah Angus, Colette McCann and Jamie Dunne, who contributed to its preparation and delivery.

Coyle also highlighted the practical support provided by the Scientology Community Centre, where she had previously organised another event.

“This was my second event at the Scientology Community Centre, and both times the planning and the event itself have gone extremely smoothly,” she said. “In the weeks beforehand, the team worked through everything we needed, from lighting and tables to the presentation of the results. When I walked into the venue on the day, everything was ready to go, which took away so much of the stress involved in running an event.”

The Church of Scientology & Community Centre of Dublin opened in 2017 as a place for Scientology religious services and as a venue for cultural, educational, charitable and community activities.

Its facilities have provided a meeting place for organisations and initiatives from across Dublin, reflecting Hubbard’s view that Scientology churches should contribute positively to the communities in which they operate and provide space for constructive cooperation.

Asia Kuzma, Public Relations Officer at the Church of Scientology & Community Centre of Dublin, said RINCE represented the kind of activity the Centre was pleased to accommodate.

“RINCE brought together children, adults, families and dancers from different organisations around something that requires dedication and creates genuine connections between people,” Kuzma said. “Irish dance shows how cultural heritage can remain strong without becoming static. Each generation develops its abilities, learns from what came before and then carries that tradition forward.”

At RINCE All Irelands, the emphasis remained on culture, accomplishment and participation.

From four-year-old beginners taking some of their earliest competitive steps to experienced dancers performing at championship level, the event presented Irish dance as a living tradition sustained not simply by preserving what came before, but by continuing to learn, practise, compete and pass those skills to others.

By bringing dancers together across organisational and national boundaries, the inaugural RINCE All Irelands also demonstrated how a shared cultural tradition can provide common ground while allowing participants to retain the identities and traditions they bring with them.

About the Church of Scientology in Europe

The Church of Scientology, its churches, missions, groups and members are present throughout the European continent. Founded by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology supports educational and humanitarian initiatives in areas including human rights education, moral education, volunteer assistance and community betterment. These include The Way to Happiness, human rights education programmes and the work of Scientology Volunteer Ministers.

Recognition of Scientology as a religion and, in a number of jurisdictions, within charitable, religious or public-benefit frameworks has continued to grow under Europe’s differing national legal systems, alongside an established network of churches, missions and groups committed to education, prevention and community betterment.

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Ronel Lamour Junior launches a self-check for South Florida homeowners before the next AC breakdown

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Why a self-check, and why now

Florida, USA, 12th September 2026,  ZEX PR WIRE, Ronel Lamour Junior has spent about 16 years working on residential and light-commercial HVAC systems across South Florida. Most of the emergency calls he takes in peak cooling season share a pattern: a problem that started small and got ignored until the system stopped altogether.

“By the time someone calls me on a Saturday because the house is 85 degrees, the actual failure usually started weeks earlier,” Ronel said. “A dirty filter, a clogged drain line, a thermostat that’s been acting strange. Most of it gives you warning signs.”

He built a short list of checks a homeowner can run in about ten minutes, without tools or technical training. He is releasing it publicly rather than keeping it as something he only mentions on service calls.

What the self-check covers

The list has five items, each tied to a common failure Ronel sees repeatedly in Florida homes:

Airflow at the vents. Weak airflow from multiple rooms often points to a dirty filter or a blocked return, not a failing compressor. Ronel recommends checking the filter first, before anything else.

Water near the indoor unit. Standing water or a musty smell near the air handler usually means a clogged condensate line. In Florida’s humidity, this is one of the most common calls he gets, and it is often caught early if someone notices the water before it damages flooring or drywall.

Outdoor unit clearance. Leaves, mulch, or grass clippings packed against the outdoor condenser restrict airflow and make the whole system work harder. Ronel suggests a quick visual check for anything piled against the unit, especially after storms.

Thermostat behavior. A thermostat that seems to lose its schedule, shows inconsistent temperature readings, or won’t hold a setting is worth noting before it fails completely, particularly for households running smart thermostats.

Unusual sounds or smells. Grinding, clicking, or a burning smell are signs Ronel tells people not to wait on. Everything else on the list is a “watch it” item. This one is a “call someone now” item.

Why he is putting it in writing

Ronel has said that trust with customers is built slowly and lost quickly. Part of how he tries to build it is by giving people enough information to know what is actually urgent and what can wait.

“I’d rather someone catch a small problem themselves than pay for an emergency call that could’ve been avoided,” he said. “And if they check all five of these and everything looks fine, that’s useful information too. It usually means the problem is something else, and I don’t have to guess when I get there.”

He also sees it as a way to cut down on unnecessary anxiety. Not every strange noise means a system is dying, and not every warm room means the compressor failed.

“A lot of people panic before they need to,” Ronel said. “If you know what you’re looking at, you make better decisions. Do you need someone today, or can this wait until tomorrow morning? That’s a real difference for a family with kids or elderly parents in the house.”

Who this is for

Ronel built the checklist with South Florida’s climate in mind specifically. Condensate line clogs, humidity-driven mold near indoor units, and outdoor units packed with storm debris are more common here than in drier climates, and he wanted the list to reflect what actually goes wrong in this region rather than generic advice.

He plans to keep the list simple rather than expand it into something more technical.

“The moment it needs a multimeter, it’s not a self-check anymore,” he said. “This is meant for someone standing in their hallway trying to figure out if they need to make a call tonight or if it can wait.”

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About Ronel Lamour Junior

Ronel Lamour Junior is a Senior HVAC Service Technician based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with about 16 years of experience in residential and light-commercial heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration work. He holds an EPA Section 608 Universal Certification and has spent much of his career diagnosing airflow, electrical, and refrigerant problems across South Florida homes. He is working toward starting his own HVAC company built around transparent recommendations and long-term customer relationships.

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