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The New America Created by Miles Yu: Burning Anti-Asian Hate
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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ICE Intercontinental Exchange ICE Launches AI-Powered Quantitative Trading Platform Globally
United States, 9th Sep 2026 – ICE recently launched its AI-powered quantitative trading platform globally on September 6th, marking a significant step forward in the platform’s development of digital tools for gold trading.
Leveraging a mature market trading system, the new AI-powered quantitative trading platform aims to provide global gold market participants with intelligent trading assistance tools, optimizing the efficiency of gold trading execution and adapting to the diverse trading reference needs of various market environments.
According to publicly available information from the platform, at the time of the platform’s launch, its assets under management exceeded US$185 million. This new platform integrates technological capabilities with gold spot and futures trading businesses, providing standardized gold trading technical services to market users in different regions around the world.
An ICE representative stated that the company will continue to adhere to industry standards, deeply cultivate the gold trading sector, iterate its intelligent technology products, and collaborate with multiple global industry resources to contribute to the digital development of the gold trading market.
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William Castro’s Korean War memoir, From Paradise to Hell, recounts the experiences of young Hawaiian soldiers who left island life for the front lines in Korea, preserving a personal history of friendship, courage, sacrifice and survival.
United States, 9th Sep 2026 – At eighteen years old, William Castro left the Big Island of Hawaii with a group of young men who had grown up surrounded by the ocean, family, and the traditions of island life. Within months, they would find themselves fighting on the frozen mountains of Korea.
That journey is at the heart of Castro’s new memoir, From Paradise to Hell: Tales of a Group of Boys Who Became Men and One A Giant Under Fire, a firsthand account of friendship, military service, sacrifice, and survival during the Korean War.
When the Korean War erupted in 1950, the conflict quickly became personal for communities across Hawaii as casualties from Hawaii’s own military units began returning home. Castro and other young men from across the islands made the decision to enlist and serve. Most were teenagers, and some had barely begun adulthood.
Among them was Leroy Kauhini, a seventeen-year-old from Oahu whose story becomes one of the book’s most powerful threads. Too young to sign his own enlistment papers, Leroy needed his mother’s permission before joining the group.
Together, the young recruits traveled from Hawaii to Japan and eventually into South Korea, where the war they had heard about in newspapers and on the radio became a terrifying reality. Castro recalls arriving in a country devastated by conflict and encountering civilians fleeing the fighting before being sent toward the front.
The young soldiers were eventually assigned to the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, and introduced to the harsh realities of frontline combat.
Among the most dramatic episodes in the memoir is the battle for Hill 717, where Castro witnesses Leroy Kauhini advancing through intense enemy fire. The battle becomes a defining moment – not only in the war, but in Castro’s understanding of the courage and character of the young men beside him.
Yet From Paradise to Hell is more than a chronicle of battles.
Castro brings readers inside the lives of the men behind the uniforms – their jokes, fears, friendships, memories of Hawaii, and the bond that developed between soldiers who had entered the Army as boys. Humor becomes a means of surviving the unimaginable, while memories of home provide an emotional counterpoint to the violence surrounding them.
The book ultimately asks readers to look beyond military statistics and historical timelines and remember the young people who lived through them.
“This is the story of the boys who went to war,” Castro writes – not simply as soldiers, but as sons, cousins, friends, and brothers whose lives were permanently changed by their service.
The memoir is dedicated to the young men who volunteered and traveled with Castro to South Korea on January 1, 1951, as well as to the men and boys from Hawaii who answered the call to duty and made the ultimate sacrifice.
With From Paradise to Hell, Castro preserves a personal chapter of Korean War history and gives readers an opportunity to experience the conflict through the eyes of the young Hawaiian soldiers who lived it.
About From Paradise to Hell
From Paradise to Hell: Tales of a Group of Boys Who Became Men and One A Giant Under Fire
Author: William Castro
Genre: Memoir / Military History
Publication: 2026
About William Castro
William Castro is a Korean War veteran who served as a young soldier after leaving Hawaii for Korea in 1951. In From Paradise to Hell, he recounts the experiences of his fellow soldiers and the events that transformed a group of young men from Hawaii into combat veterans.
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Tradition Announces Partnership With Affin Moneybrokers to Support Malaysian Market Data
Singapore, Singapore, September 9th, 2026, FinanceWire
Tradition today announced a strategic partnership with Affin Moneybrokers Sdn. Bhd., one of Malaysia’s leading interbank money brokers, under which Tradition will provide market data infrastructure, pricing technology and distribution capabilities to support Affin’s continued growth in the Malaysian financial markets.
The partnership brings together Tradition’s global expertise in market data, pricing technologies and information distribution with AFFIN Moneybrokers’ established position in Malaysia’s wholesale financial markets. Through the collaboration, Tradition will provide pricing tools, data management capabilities and publication services designed to enhance the creation, management and distribution of market data across foreign exchange, money markets, rates and fixed income products.
Affin Moneybrokers is the growing brokerage business and part of the Affin Group and plays an important role in Malaysia’s interbank Foreign Exchange, OTC Derivative, Fixed Income and Money Markets, acting as an intermediary between financial institutions supporting price transparency and market efficiency.
The partnership reflects growing demand across Asia for locally sourced, trusted market data and pricing information. By combining AFFIN’s market expertise with Tradition’s technology, data engineering and distribution capabilities, the two firms aim to further strengthen the availability and quality of Malaysian market data for domestic and international market participants.
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