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After an action-packed 2022 that saw India win 61 medals at the Commonwealth Games as well as success on the international circuit elsewhere, India's athletes are gearing up for another packed year of sporting action. Chief amongst those is the 2023 Asian Games beginning in September as well as India hosting the men's hockey World Cup in January.
2023 is an important year for Indian sportspersons, as the qualification calendar in the leadup to the 2024 Paris Olympics also begins in many disciplines. Here's the 2023 calendar to keep track of big tournaments and ESPN India's coverage:
2023 Tata Open (Tennis, ATP) in Pune, Maharashtra: January 02-17
2023 Asian WTTC Continental Stage in Doha, Qatar: January 06-12
India's 2023 table tennis calendar begins in Qatar, with Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan, Manika Batra and Archana Kamath vying for honours.
2023 Malaysia Open, Badminton (Super 1000) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: January 10-15
The badminton calendar begins with an upgraded Super 1000 event in Malaysia.
2023 ISSF World Cup, Shotgun in Rabat, Morocco: January 11-24
2023 FIH Hockey Men's World Cup in Odisha, India: January 13-29
India hosts the men's hockey World Cup once more, although Rourkela adds itself to Bhubaneswar as the hosts cities with an impressive stadium. India, captained by Harmanpreet Singh, are placed in pool D alongside England, Spain and Wales.
2023 ICC U-19 World T20 (W) in South Africa: January 14-29
2023 Australia Open (tennis) in Melbourne: January 16-29
2023 India Open, Badminton (Super 750) in New Delhi, India: January 17-22
The India Open has graduated into a Super 750 event with all of India's badminton stars expected to feature.
2023 Indonesia Masters, Badminton (Super 500) in Jakarta, Indonesia: January 24-29
2023 ISSF World Cup, Rifle/Pistol in Jakarta, Indonesia: January 27 to February 07
2023 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Courchevel and Méribel, France: February 06-19
Arif Khan, India's sole representative at the Beijing Winter Olympics, is expected to feature in the slalom and giant slalom events.
2023 ICC World T20 (W) in South Africa: February 10-26
2023 ISSF World Cup, Rifle/Pistol in Cairo, Egypt: February 17-28
2023 Asian Shotgun Cup in Kuwait: February 20 to March 02
2023 WTT Star Contender in Goa, India: February 27 to March 05
India's first-ever WTT series event will be held in Panaji, Goa, with all of India's top table tennis stars expected to feature.
2022-23 Indian Super League Playoffs and Final: TBA
2023 ISSF World Cup, Shotgun in Doha, Qatar: March 04-15
2022-23 FIH Pro League (M) in Odisha, India: March 10-15 (current season)
After finishing third in the 2021-22 FPL standings, India resume their 2022-23 Pro League campaign in Rourkela, facing Germany and Australia in two-legged ties in the span of six days.
2023 All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England: March 14-19
2023 Archery Asia Cup, Leg 1 in Chinese Taipei: March 14-19
2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, India: March 15-31
Nikhat Zareen will defend her status as World Champion after finishing 2022 with an undefeated record.
2023 ISSF World Cup, Rifle/Pistol in Bhopal, India: March 20-31
2023 ISSF World Cup, Shotgun in Larnaca, Cyprus: March 25 to April 06
2023 Asian Wrestling Championships in New Delhi, India: March 28 to April 02
It's home-court advantage for Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Co. as they seek to assert their supremacy.
2022-23 Indian Super Cup: TBA
2023 Indian Women's League: TBA
2023 Indian Premier League: TBA
2023 Archery Asia Cup, Leg 2 in Uzbekistan: TBA
2023 ISSF World Cup, Rifle/Pistol in Las Palmas, Lima, Peru: April 11-22
2023 ISSF World Cup, Shotgun in Cairo, Egypt: April 25 to May 06
2023 BWF World Mixed Team Championships (Sudirman Cup) in Suzhou, China: TBA
India were originally supposed to host the Sudirman Cup in 2023, but due to China losing out on hosting the previous edition in 2021 (It was held in Finland due to COVID-19 complications), they were awarded hosting rights for the 2023 edition. India accepted the opportunity to host the BWF World Championships in 2026 in return.
The Race to Paris Olympic Qualification begins on 1 May 2023, with the Sudirman Cup the first eligible ranking tournament within that period. Qualification will run until 28 April 2024 with the Race to Paris ranking lists as of 30 April 2024 used to determine the initial list of qualifiers.
2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan: May 01-14
2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Jinju, South Korea: May 03-13
Mirabai Chanu and Co. resume their qualification for the Paris Olympics.
2023 ISSF World Cup, Rifle/Pistol in Baku, Azerbaijan: May 04-15
2023 Diamond League Meeting in Doha, Qatar: May 05
Neeraj Chopra might begin his 2023 Diamond League campaign in Qatar.
2023 World Judo Championships: May 07-14
2023 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, South Africa: May 20-28
Independent India has never won a medal at the TT Worlds, so expectations for Sharath Kamal and Co. are tempered.
2023 ISSF World Cup, Shotgun in Almaty, Kazakhstan: May 20-31
2023 Malaysia Masters, Badminton (Super 500) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: May 23-28
2022-23 FIH Pro League (M) in London, England: May 26 to June 03 (Current Season)
India take on Belgium and Great Britain in two-legged ties.
2023 Diamond League, Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme in Rabat, Morocco: May 28
2023 French Open (tennis) in Paris: May 28 to June 11
2023 Thailand Open, Badminton (Super 500) in Bangkok, Thailand: May 30 to June 04
2023 AFC Asian Cup (M) in Qatar: TBA
India have qualified for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, which was originally meant to be held in China in June, but has been moved to Qatar due to COVID-19 complications. Due to high temperatures, the tournament may be shifted to late 2023 or early 2024.
2023 Diamond League, Golden Gala in Florence, Italy: June 02
2023 IWF Grand Prix, Weightlifting in Havana, Cuba: June 02-12
This event counts towards qualification points for Paris 2024, which ought to see Indian weightlifters take part.
2023 Archery Asia Cup, Leg 3 in Singapore: June 05-10
2023 Singapore Open, Badminton (Super 750) in Singapore: June 06-11
2022-23 FIH Pro League (M) in Eindhoven, Netherlands: June 07-11 (Current Season)
India take on Netherlands and Argentina in two-legged ties.
2023 Diamond League Meeting in Paris, France: June 09
2023 Indonesia Open, Badminton (Super 1000) in Jakarta, Indonesia: June 13-18
2023 Diamond League, Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway: June 15
2023 U-23 Asian Wrestling Championships in Amman, Jordan: June 17-25
2023 Diamond League, Athletissima in Lausanne, Switzerland: June 30
2023 Wimbledon in London: July 3-16
2023 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in New Delhi, India: TBA
2023 Diamond League, BAUHAUS-Galan in Stockholm, Sweden: July 02
2023 Canada Open, Badminton (Super 500) in Calgary, Canada: July 04-09
2023 ISSF World Cup, Shotgun in Lonato, Italy: July 06-17
2023 FINA World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan: July 14-30
2023 Diamond League, Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Chorzów, Poland: July 16
2023 Korea Open, Badminton (Super 500) in Seoul, South Korea: July 18-23
2023 Diamond League, Herculis in Monaco: July 21
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand: July 20 to August 20
India are not featuring in the 32-team tournament, but may have had COVID-19 not intervened in the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup.
2023 Diamond League Meeting in London, England: July 23
2023 Japan Open, Badminton (Super 750) in Tokyo, Japan: July 25-30
2023 Asian Youth & Junior Weightlifting Championships in New Delhi, India: July 28 to August 05
2023 Diamond League Meeting in Shanghai, China: July 29
2023-24 FIH Pro League (W): TBA
India qualified for the 2023-24 edition of the Pro League on account of their FIH Nations Cup win. The opening games are expected to serve as preparation for the Asian Games, although fixtures have yet to be announced.
2023 Australia Open, Badminton (Super 500) in Sydney, Australia: August 01-06
2023 Diamond League Meeting in Shenzhen, China: August 03
2023 ISSF World Championship All Events in Baku, Azerbaijan: August 14 to September 03
2023 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary: August 19-27
Neeraj Chopra will be aiming to go one better than his silver medal at the Worlds in 2022.
2023 BWF Badminton World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark: August 21-27
2023 US Open (tennis) in New York: August 28 to September 9
2023 Diamond League, Weltklasse in Zurich, Switzerland: August 31
2023 SAFF Championship (M): TBA
The hosts are yet to be decided, with a tentative date of September 2023 proposed.
2023 IWF Weightlifting World Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: September 02-17
Mirabai Chanu will be aiming to go one better than her silver from the 2022 Bogota Worlds, especially with this event also counting towards Olympic qualification.
2023 Asian Table Tennis Championships in Korea: September 03-10
2023 China Open, Badminton (Super 1000) in Changzhou, China: September 05-10
2023 Diamond League, Memorial van Damme in Brussels, Belgium: September 08
2023 ISSF World Cup, Rifle/Pistol in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: September 08-19
2023 Hong Kong Open, Badminton (Super 500) in Hong Kong: September 12-17
2023 World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia: September 16-24
The Wrestling Worlds takes place right before the Asian Games, which might complicate matters for Indian wrestlers.
2023 Diamond League Finals, Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, USA: September 16-17
2023-24 AFC Cup (M) Group Stage: September 18 to December 12
India's representatives in the South Asian Group Stage will be decided by a playoff between Gokulam Kerala (2021-22 I-League champions) and winners of the 2022-23 Indian Super Cup. An additional spot via the qualifiying play-off pathway will be decided between Hyderabad FC and the winners of the 2022-23 Indian Super League final, after which they will need to take part in a qualifying mini-tournament to make the group stage.
2023-24 AFC Champions League (M) Group Stage: September 18 to December 13
India have a direct group stage entrant, which will be decided by a playoff between Jamshedpur FC and the league stage champions of the 2022-23 ISL season.
2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China: September 23 to October 08
The big one. With Covid-19 postponing the competition from its initial dates in 2022, it afforded Indian athletes a break after the 2022 Commonwealth Games, with the Asian Games now all set to feature as a convenient proving ground in the buildup to the 2024 Paris Olympics. All of India's best in athletics, archery, badminton, boxing, chess, hockey, shooting, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling will feature. Additionally, cricket makes a return to the Asiad programme, with kabaddi also featuring (India missed out on gold the last time). ESports, bridge and breaking vie for legitimacy once more, affording many a rare shot at the spotlight.
Overall, India will be aiming to improve on their 70-medal haul from Jakarta in 2018.
2023 National Games in Goa: TBA
The 37th edition of the National Games will be held in Goa, with dates to be announced in keeping with the international sporting calendar.
2023 ICC World Cup (M) in India: TBA
Originally scheduled for February 2023, the tournament was postponed to an October-November window.
2023 Arctic Open, Badminton (Super 500) in Vantaa, Finland: October 10-15
2023 Denmark Open, Badminton (Super 750) in Odense, Denmark: October 17-22
2023 World Combat Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: October 21-30
2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China: October 22-28
India's para-athletes will be aiming to build on the back of a successful Tokyo Paralympics and Commonwealth Games.
2023 Asian Shooting Championship in Changwon, South Korea: October 22 to November 02
2023 U-23 World Wrestling Championships in Tampere, Finland: October 23-29
2023 French Open, Badminton (Super 500) in Paris, France: October 24-29
2026 FIFA World Cup and 2027 AFC Asian Cup 2027 (M) Joint Qualifiers: TBA
India's qualification campaign for the next World and Asian Cups begin in November.
2023 Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok, Thailand: November 04-12
In addition to the Asian Games, this will serve as a qualification event for the Paris Olympics.
2023 Japan Masters, Badminton (Super 500) in Kumamoto, Japan: November 14-19
2023 Asian Para-Archery Championships in Bangkok, Thailand: November 16-26
2023 China Masters, Badminton (Super 750) in Shenzhen, China: November 21-26
2023 Syed Modi India International, Badminton (Super 300) in Lucknow, India: November 23 to December 03
2023 IWF Grand Prix, Weightlifting in Doha, Qatar: December 01-17
This event counts towards qualification points for Paris 2024, which ought to see Indian weightlifters take part.
2023 Wrestling World Cup in Coralville, United States: December 09-10
2023 BWF Badminton World Tour Finals: December 13-17
India will be aiming to have more entrants than the sole representation of HS Prannoy in the 2022 edition.
A Denver man was arrested after unleashing a “homophobic and racist rant” against the two friends at the chain on Christmas Eve, local authorities said.
A Denver man who harassed two Korean American people at an In-N-Out Burger location in San Ramon, Calif., on Christmas Eve — a confrontation captured in a TikTok video by the victims while they were eating — was arrested by local authorities on Monday on two counts of committing a hate crime.
Jordan Douglas Krah, 40, is no longer in custody, a spokesperson for the San Ramon Police Department said in an email, and it was unclear whether official charges would be filed. A spokesperson for the Contra Costa County district attorney said the office had not gotten details about the case from the police department yet.
Arine Kim, a 20-year-old student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her friend Elliot Ha, also 20, a student at Duke University, were home for their holiday break and decided to try some off-menu items at In-N-Out on the night of Christmas Eve.
“We were just talking about life,” Ms. Kim, from Moraga, Calif., said. “It was good vibes over all.”
They were capturing their reactions and filming a TikTok video inside the restaurant when Mr. Krah approached them and asked if they were recording themselves eating. They said they were.
“You’re weird homosexuals,” Mr. Krah responded, the video showed, as a shocked expression spread on Ms. Kim’s face.
“I just want to eat my Flying Dutchman in peace,” Mr. Ha, of Livermore, Calif., said, referring to an off-menu item, consisting of two burger patties enveloping slices of cheese.
Moments later, Mr. Krah could be heard asking the pair whether they were Japanese or Korean.
When Mr. Ha responded and said that he was Korean, Mr. Krah said: “You’re Kim Jong-un’s boyfriend, huh?” referring to the leader of North Korea.
Then the tenor of the conversation appeared to take a sinister turn, with Mr. Krah heard on video describing himself as a “slave master” and using a homophobic slur. He is then heard on video saying that he would see the pair outside.
“My alarm bells were ringing,” Ms. Kim said. “And it was late at night, almost 11 p.m. at that point and it’s completely dark outside. I was just very scared.”
The video showed Ms. Kim and Mr. Ha, both increasingly flustered, attempting to disengage with the man and continue with their food review of the In-N-Out menu, as Mr. Krah stared at them from outside the restaurant’s window, according to Ms. Kim’s video caption and description.
Chief Denton Carlson of the San Ramon Police Department spotted the video, which circulated rapidly online and had been viewed more than 13 million times. He contacted the victims to begin an investigation, the police said in a news release.
The police said that Mr. Krah’s “homophobic and racist rant” made the victims concerned for their safety.
The number of hate crimes committed against Asian Americans and reported to the police has surged during the pandemic. Stop AAPI Hate, a group formed at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that collects data on hate and harassment faced by the Asian American community, recorded more than 10,000 hate incidents in 2020 and 2021. Nearly half of reported events occurred in public places, the report found.
In nearly two dozen major cities, including Los Angeles, Houston, and New York, reported anti-Asian hate crimes rose by an average of 224 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to a report by the San Bernardino-based Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. The total number, 369 hate crimes, was a record high, said Brian Levin, a professor at California State University in San Bernardino.
This year is on track to “far surpass” prepandemic levels of hate crimes experienced by Asian Americans, said Mr. Levin.
Mr. Ha and Ms. Kim said they are pressing charges, after initially hesitating because they had believed that the verbal attack would not be taken seriously by the authorities.
“This entire situation feels very surreal to me because I really didn’t think anyone would care,” Ms. Kim said, adding that there are “tens and thousands of people” who have faced similar hatred not captured on video.
Seeing the outpouring of support from others after the incident had helped “restore my faith in my humanity,” Mr. Ha said. He and Ms. Kim said that they hope others will be spurred to report acts of hate.
It was unclear whether Mr. Krah is represented by a lawyer.
After learning of Mr. Krah’s arrest, Ms. Kim and Mr. Ha returned to the same In-N-Out for a meal. Strangers, recognizing them from the TikTok video and news articles, paid for their order, they said.
“My burger tasted delicious,” Ms. Kim said.
This time, Mr. Ha stuck to his usual, a double-double.
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2022 / Las Vegas Sands
On August 8, the Asian Community Development Center (ACDC), Southern Nevada's leading nonprofit organization serving the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, celebrated the grand opening of its Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders (HAPI) Medical Center. Years in the making, the HAPI Medical Center provides primary health care services for the Las Vegas Valley's AAPI community, with a 100% bilingual staff that can deliver care in Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese and more languages to come.
Elected officials participating in the grand opening included Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and First Lady Kathy Sisolak, as well as Congressman Steven Horsford, Congresswoman Susie Lee, Assemblywoman Brittney Miller, Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen and Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones.
At the ceremony, speakers shared stories about acting as family members' translators for medical appointments as youth and the difficulty AAPI community members face in finding care delivered in their preferred language.
Located near the heart of the AAPI community in Las Vegas, the Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders Medical Center's mission is to provide high-quality and linguistically and culturally accessible health services for the underserved, uninsured and underinsured populations in Las Vegas Valley. Community residents who come to the HAPI Medical Center will be asked their preferred language and then paired with an in-language care provider who also understands cultural differences and how to complement Western medicine with Eastern practices, if desired.
"Too often, our community residents have to rely on a family member, frequently a child, to help them understand their medical providers and care," said Vida Lin, founder and president of ACDC. "Since I founded ACDC in 2015 in Southern Nevada, I have wanted to establish a new health care resource for the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to help break down the barriers that prevent people from receiving the high-quality care they need and deserve. The opening of the HAPI Medical Center is a dream come true for me, and I thank Sands for the support to make this much-needed resource a reality."
Earlier this year, Sands provided $100,000 to ACDC through Sands Cares to support the opening of the Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders Medical Center, a component of the company's overall 2022 partnership, which also included ACDC's language bank and in-language hotline. Sands had helped ACDC launch the language bank in 2021 with Sands Cares funding to facilitate connections to critical social services for AAPI residents in Southern Nevada. Both programs represent Sands Cares' focus on helping nonprofit organizations build capacity to amplify their impact, as well as removing systemic barriers for diverse communities.
The Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders Medical Center is now open to provide care Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 8863 W. Flamingo Rd. Suite 101. To learn more, please visit www.hapimedical.org.
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Fivio Foreign's business is on front street after his girlfriend shared video of her yelling at the rapper because of a new TikTok where he is getting twerked on by Asian Doll. Now the Brooklyn, N.Y. rapper is responding.
On Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 28), Fivio shared a post on Twitter reacting to the recent uproar made over him getting screamed on by his girlfriend Jasmine Giselle. The B.I.B.L.E. rapper seems perplexed as to why such a fuss was being made over what he sees is an innocent interaction.
"A nigga can’t dance w. His friend," Fivio typed. "This world demonic smh," he added.
Asian Doll has appeared to react to her name trending on Twitter due to the video as well. On her Instagram Story, she shared a photo of a young man smiling from ear-to-ear along with the caption: "Mood."
Asian Doll instagram.
This whole situation started when Asian Doll shared a video of herself twerking on Fivio Foreign on TikTok to the soundtrack of Ice Spice's new single "In Ha Mood." In the clip, Fivio grabs Asian's waistband and aggressively thrusts her backside while she twerks on him.
Someone sent Fivio Foreign's girlfriend Jasmine Giselle the video and she let Fivio have it on Instagram Live when he got home this morning.
"Home, here. But posted up with Asian Doll. You real cute," she nagged the half-sleep Fivio in the video. "This is ain't no exposure shit. We together, but he's been hiding that we are together...For the bitches that didn't know. Asian Doll, we're together. I don't know why you posted up with Asian Doll like you with Asian Doll."
"You moving around acting like you single and you not," she added. "That's your problem, you not single. And they was doing that today. You not single. He's home, here, everyday. Yea, he's sick now. ’Cause when niggas get caught up they sick all of a sudden."
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Fivio Foreign’s girlfriend Jasmine Giselle is not happy about the rapper’s recent video with Asian Doll. Asian shared a video to Tik Tok of herself dancing seductively with the Brooklyn rapper to new Ice Spice music. Shortly after the post, Jasmine hopped on Instagram Live to blast the “Say My Name” star over his antics.
“Here with me, but posted up with Asian Doll,” she shared in the Live as Fivio lounged in the background. “This ain’t no exposing sh**. We together. But he’s been hiding that we’re together.” Jasmine also addressed Asian Doll directly in the video. “Asian Doll, we’re together. He’s right here. Sick from partying last night with Asian Doll.”
During the Live, Fivio called out his BM for “doing weird sh*.” But Jasmine didn’t let up. “I’m doing weird sh**? Or going to my crib and dubbing on Asian Doll is weirder?” Fivio had his own take on what went down as he partied with Asian. The 32-year old took to Twitter to clear his name. “A ni**a can’t dance with his friend,” he tweeted. “This world demonic. Smh.”
As for Asian Doll, she has yet to respond to the viral video. However, fans wasted no time sharing their thoughts on the steamy dance video. “VON is turning in his grave,” one fan wrote. “I’ve lost count how many different people she’s been with since he died.”
Another commenter defended the Dallas native dance session. “Why she gotta be with him just cuz they dancing around lol everything not so serious all the damn time.” Fivio and Asian Doll’s friendship isn’t new. Earlier this year, the B.I.B.L.E star accused Asian of lying on his name after she claimed he complimented her at a party.
“Wtf.. Wat type ov lie is dat,” he wrote. “She da homie for sure.. but I gotta gurl.. Yu kno I ain’t moving like dat.” Share your thoughts on Asian and Fivio’s sensual TikTok below.
A Denver man was arrested after unleashing a “homophobic and racist rant” against the two friends at the chain on Christmas Eve, local authorities said.
A Denver man who harassed two Korean American people at an In-N-Out Burger location in San Ramon, Calif., on Christmas Eve — a confrontation captured in a TikTok video by the victims while they were eating — was arrested by local authorities on Monday on two counts of committing a hate crime.
Jordan Douglas Krah, 40, is no longer in custody, a spokesperson for the San Ramon Police Department said in an email, and it was unclear whether official charges would be filed. A spokesperson for the Contra Costa County district attorney said the office had not gotten details about the case from the police department yet.
Arine Kim, a 20-year-old student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her friend Elliot Ha, also 20, a student at Duke University, were home for their holiday break and decided to try some off-menu items at In-N-Out on the night of Christmas Eve.
“We were just talking about life,” Ms. Kim, from Moraga, Calif., said. “It was good vibes over all.”
They were capturing their reactions and filming a TikTok video inside the restaurant when Mr. Krah approached them and asked if they were recording themselves eating. They said they were.
“You’re weird homosexuals,” Mr. Krah responded, the video showed, as a shocked expression spread on Ms. Kim’s face.
“I just want to eat my Flying Dutchman in peace,” Mr. Ha, of Livermore, Calif., said, referring to an off-menu item, consisting of two burger patties enveloping slices of cheese.
Moments later, Mr. Krah could be heard asking the pair whether they were Japanese or Korean.
When Mr. Ha responded and said that he was Korean, Mr. Krah said: “You’re Kim Jong-un’s boyfriend, huh?” referring to the leader of North Korea.
Then the tenor of the conversation appeared to take a sinister turn, with Mr. Krah heard on video describing himself as a “slave master” and using a homophobic slur. He is then heard on video saying that he would see the pair outside.
“My alarm bells were ringing,” Ms. Kim said. “And it was late at night, almost 11 p.m. at that point and it’s completely dark outside. I was just very scared.”
The video showed Ms. Kim and Mr. Ha, both increasingly flustered, attempting to disengage with the man and continue with their food review of the In-N-Out menu, as Mr. Krah stared at them from outside the restaurant’s window, according to Ms. Kim’s video caption and description.
Chief Denton Carlson of the San Ramon Police Department spotted the video, which circulated rapidly online and had been viewed more than 13 million times. He contacted the victims to begin an investigation, the police said in a news release.
The police said that Mr. Krah’s “homophobic and racist rant” made the victims concerned for their safety.
The number of hate crimes committed against Asian Americans and reported to the police has surged during the pandemic. Stop AAPI Hate, a group formed at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that collects data on hate and harassment faced by the Asian American community, recorded more than 10,000 hate incidents in 2020 and 2021. Nearly half of reported events occurred in public places, the report found.
In nearly two dozen major cities, including Los Angeles, Houston, and New York, reported anti-Asian hate crimes rose by an average of 224 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to a report by the San Bernardino-based Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. The total number, 369 hate crimes, was a record high, said Brian Levin, a professor at California State University in San Bernardino.
This year is on track to “far surpass” prepandemic levels of hate crimes experienced by Asian Americans, said Mr. Levin.
Mr. Ha and Ms. Kim said they are pressing charges, after initially hesitating because they had believed that the verbal attack would not be taken seriously by the authorities.
“This entire situation feels very surreal to me because I really didn’t think anyone would care,” Ms. Kim said, adding that there are “tens and thousands of people” who have faced similar hatred not captured on video.
Seeing the outpouring of support from others after the incident had helped “restore my faith in my humanity,” Mr. Ha said. He and Ms. Kim said that they hope others will be spurred to report acts of hate.
It was unclear whether Mr. Krah is represented by a lawyer.
After learning of Mr. Krah’s arrest, Ms. Kim and Mr. Ha returned to the same In-N-Out for a meal. Strangers, recognizing them from the TikTok video and news articles, paid for their order, they said.
“My burger tasted delicious,” Ms. Kim said.
This time, Mr. Ha stuck to his usual, a double-double.
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11 Asian icons who shaped 2022: from World Cup stars to BTS and Blackpink StyleThree of the seven members on the county’s board of education are South Asian —making history for the most representation on the county’s powerful education board.
The Santa Clara County Board of Education swore in its first Pakistani American members, Maimona Afzal Berta and Raeena Lari, this month. Both members won in November’s election: Berta defeated San Jose Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco for the seat held by former trustee Peter Ortiz, who secured a spot on the San Jose council. Lari beat candidate Natalie Prcevski for the seat held by trustee Claudia Rossi, who did not seek reelection. They join Tara Sreekrishnan, who won reelection this year unopposed, and is the board’s first Indian American member.
Berta, a special education teacher, said she hopes her win will foster self-empowerment and leadership among students of color. The former Franklin-McKinley School District board member said representation for South Asians and Muslim Americans was scarce growing up.
“For young people, it’s hard to imagine what’s possible, or even specific pathways of leadership if you’ve never seen it done before,” Berta told San Jose Spotlight. “As a working mom navigating issues like affordable childcare, (being a) Hijabi and public school teacher, the perspective I bring makes this win that much more significant.”
Board of Education members represent different parts of the county, working with the county’s Office of Education to oversee academic and financial programs at more than 30 school districts.
Berta’s perspective as a non-English speaker growing up will also inform her work in education, she said. She represents Area 6, which includes East San Jose school districts— Alum Rock Union School District, Franklin-McKinley School District and Mt. Pleasant School District. Her district includes parts of East Side Union High School District and San Jose Unified School District.
“Growing up in East San Jose, language played a significant role in staying connected to my family’s Pakistani and Kashmiri heritage. At home, I only spoke my native language first and learned English in school,” Berta told San José Spotlight. “Representation in leadership helps ensure decisions and policies reflect diverse student backgrounds.”
Lari said her and Berta’s victories are encouraging amid ongoing discrimination against Asian Americans and Muslims. Both board members faced Islamophobic comments on social media during their campaigns which can often deter some people of color from pursuing political office. San Jose’s Sikh community, an ethnic and religious minority, is also pushing for more political representation after a resolution passed in the state Assembly to recognize the community’s presence in California.
“Representation will garner more confidence within the South Asian community that their voices will be heard and encourage more South Asian origin individuals to participate in the political system,” Lari told San José Spotlight.
Lari said her new position is an extension of the work her family has done for generations: her grandfather pushed for education to be codified as a basic human right in India’s Constitution. Lari, a research economist, represents Area 7, which includes Evergreen School District, Morgan Hill Unified School District, Gilroy Unified School District and parts of Oak Grove School District and East Side Union High School District.
Sameena Usman, a government relations coordinator with the Bay Area’s Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter, said the new representatives could help support more robust ethnic studies programs.
“We want to make sure that we have a true representation of different cultures and religions to be taught to the students,” Usman told San José Spotlight.
Sreekrishnan said she’s looking forward to working with the new members, who each bring their own distinct education interests and ideas. Sreekrishnan represents Area 2, which includes Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District, Cupertino Union School District, Lakeside Joint Union School District, Loma Prieta Joint Union School District, Los Gatos Union School District and Saratoga Union School District. It also includes portions of Santa Clara Unified School District.
Sreekrishnan was first appointed to the seat in 2021. She works as a deputy chief of staff to state Sen. Dave Cortese.
“We’re certainly not a monolith. We each bring a unique perspective, despite our shared cultural background,” Sreekrishnan told San José Spotlight. “I’m honored that each of us were supported by educators and families across the county.”
Having diverse education leaders means policies are created with a deeper understanding of students of color’s experiences, Lari said. As a new board member, she hopes to address inequities among the county’s students in terms of mental and physical health.
“Students are our future and they will determine the trajectory of our world,” Lari told San José Spotlight. “It is great to see that in 2022, we are catching up in terms of South Asian representation.”
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This is part one of four, adapted from remarks to the U.S. National Defense University’s College of National Security Affairs (Nov. 16, 2022), and remarks to the China Centre, Jesus College, Cambridge University (Nov. 30, 2022)
When Deng Xiaoping opened China to the world four decades ago, Americans were ready to do what we most enjoy doing – showering foreign countries with insistent, well-meaning advice about how to conduct themselves at home and abroad. Henry Kissinger wryly observed at the time that China had somehow managed to get along without American counsel for 4,000 years before the United States was born. This is a useful reminder that the state system or “order” in East Asia did not spring into being when we Americans arrived there. It has taken many forms over the millennia, only a few of which have involved an American presence – and then only in the past 180 or so years.
Now a renewed version of the pre-American dynamic may be in prospect. Geography is the DNA of geopolitics. It has a way of re-expressing familiar patterns that history seemed for a while to have killed off.
Historically, the East Asian order was a sort of “three-body problem.” In physics and orbital mechanics, a three-body (or n-body) problem describes the difficulty of charting the patterns and predicting trajectories created by the interaction between competing gravitational centers, each of which is in motion. In East Asia, the three centers of gravity were China, the Northeast Asian nations of Japan and Korea, and the great sea empires of Southeast Asia – Srivijaya and Chola – which linked South India with what are now Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore. Of these, China had the greatest mass, but the others had their own independent political systems and cultural identities and projected their own fields of influence. The interactions between these three bodies politic and their effects on those in the spaces between them wrote the geopolitical history of East Asia.
The replacement of native Southeast Asian empires by European imperialism in the 16th and 17th centuries did not really change this dynamic. But Japan’s turn inward under the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603 and its adoption of a “national lockdown” [鎖国 – sakoku] policy in 1633, combined with the Choson Dynasty in Korea’s earlier self-isolation, removed Northeast Asia as an active participant in the region’s dynamics, leaving Western powers based in Southeast and South Asia to contend bilaterally with China. This birthed a Sino-Western contest that set the longstanding three-body interactions of the East Asian order aside.
The United States became a factor in regional affairs only in 1835, when President Andrew Jackson established an American “East India Squadron” off the China coast. Jackson’s initiative was driven by the weight that China then had in the global economy. At the time, it accounted for over one-third of the planetary product. The new American republic did not want Britain and other European powers to corner the markets of Northeast Asia, as they had those in South and Southeast Asia. So, in 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open itself to relations with the United States and, by extension, to other foreign countries. As Japan adopted the norms of Western political economies and modernized, it began to project its power throughout the region, briefly restoring a three-body dynamic to the region involving China, itself, and Western imperialism.
In 1874, the Japanese army occupied southeastern Taiwan. In 1876, Tokyo forced Korea to follow it in opening to foreigners, something an American military expedition five years earlier had failed to achieve.
By then, China was imploding under the combined impact of European efforts to divide it into spheres of influence and internal rebellions – the Taiping (太平) and Nian (捻乱). These disturbances took some 20 – 30 million lives, many more than the 14 – 17 million people of all nationalities who died in the First World War. China ceased to be an actor in regional affairs, becoming instead the playground of global imperialism. In 1900, the combined armies of Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States suppressed the Chinese “Boxer” rebellion against foreign domination, killing tens of thousands of Chinese, and looting Beijing.
For the next five decades, China was mired in domestic anarchy, foreign invasion, and civil wars. Only in 1949 did it re-emerge as an independent force. By then China’s GDP had fallen from one-third of the global total to a mere four percent of it. China’s new rulers adopted a planned economy and turned to the Soviet Union to help their country restore its vanished wealth and power.
While China was falling apart, Japan was on the rise. The Meiji period (1868 – 1912) saw Japan become the first non-Western country to industrialize and emerge as a modern military and economic power. Having absorbed and adapted Western knowledge, Japan then introduced it to China, Korea, and other neighbors, creating a Japanese sphere of cultural influence with lasting linguistic and other effects. But when the Taishō democracy of 1912 – 1926 yielded to the militarism of the early Shōwa period, Japan went to war first with China and then, in 1941, with the United States, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, quickly erasing their empires in East Asia.
Japan’s defeat in World War II left it destitute and disarmed. This created a power vacuum in the region, which the United States filled from bases in the occupied Japanese home islands. Soon thereafter U.S. forces found themselves compelled to defend Japan’s strategic perimeter in Korea. The U.S. then built a “hub-and-spokes” security system for East Asia, assumed the central responsibility for its strategic stability, bilateralized US-Asian military relationships, and effectively preempted the possibility of any NATO-like collective defense arrangements among the states of the region.
Over the seventy years since its militarist catastrophe, Japan has become the third largest economy in the world, coyly rebuilt formidable military capabilities, and ceased to be a political wallflower in its region. Korea, divided by the Cold War into two states, has seen the Republic of Korea (in the southern half of the peninsula) develop a larger economy than Russia or Brazil. Despite practicing what a Soviet leader once called “pantsless communism,” the rival regime in north Korea now has the world’s fourth-largest army and nuclear weapons.
Southeast Asia is also back as an independent participant in the region’s affairs. ASEAN coordinates the policies of its ten member states, including assertively independent and rapidly developing Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, an increasingly independent Philippines, and relentlessly realistic Singapore.
China remains deeply divided by its unfinished civil war, but, from a standing start in 1949, both Taiwan and the mainland have rapidly achieved unprecedented wealth. The People’s Republic of China, which controls the China mainland, has emerged as the economic nucleus of its region and a credible contestant for global preeminence.
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Near a large Hindu religious building, the Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, a cricket game is in progress.
But the game is not taking place in India, where cricket is very popular. Instead, the game is taking place in the American state of Texas.
The cricket game and the Hindu temple are not far from Christian churches, cattle ranches and the Dallas Cowboys football team.
Over the last 10 years, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has had the highest Asian growth rate of any major U.S. metropolitan area. A metropolitan area is the urban area of a city and nearby towns or suburbs.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Indians make up more than half the area’s Asian population increase. The Dallas suburb of Frisco alone has experienced growth similar to that of large American cities such as Seattle and Chicago.
While many Texans still love football, a growing number love cricket.
Kalyan “K.J.” Jarajapu, a volunteer at the temple who was watching a cricket game, said, “I never imagined that there would be...a cricket world like I saw back home in India here in (metro) Dallas.”
The American Community Survey is a program of the Census Bureau. The program shows that the percentage of Asians among foreign-born persons in the U.S. has risen recently. It has gone from 30 percent during the 2012-to-2016 period to 31 percent in the 2017-to-2021 period. At the same time, the percentage of immigrants from Latin America and Europe has gone down.
Immigrants from South Asia believe they have found good conditions in Frisco and other Dallas suburbs.
Hindu temples and Islamic centers
Texas-based students of Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji came together in 2008 to purchase a four-hectare piece of land in Frisco. They built a small Hindu temple there. Within three years, it was hosting hundreds of worshippers.
Jayesh Thakker, a temple trustee and joint treasurer for the India Association of North Texas, said they raised enough money to build a 3,065-square-meter temple in 2015. Nearly 30 workers came on special visas to make sure every detail honored Indian Hindu design traditions.
“They built it first as an American structure and then they ‘Indianized’ it,” Thakker said.
Indianize means to make something Indian – design, artwork, and so on.
The Islamic Center of Frisco has grown, too. Its leadership is planning to more than double the size of the 1,672-square-meter mosque by 2024. With more than 3,500 people attending prayers and 460 children attending Sunday school, the board moved to acquire more space in 2019.
Azfar Saeed, the center’s president, remembers that nearly 20 years ago only 15 people came to pray in a small space on any given day.
“At that time, nobody knew Frisco. People were like, ‘Where are you going?’” said Saeed, who was born in Pakistan. By 2010, “people just started moving...here,” he said.
Pandemic
The pandemic brought another change. Suddenly, people from California or Chicago were able to work remotely and live in different places.
The city of Houston, Texas, has had a large number of incoming Asians in the last 10 years. It has the second-highest growth rate after Dallas among major U.S. cities.
“The moment people went remote it felt like people were like, ’OK, I have a tiny house in California for $800,000 and I can buy a mansion here in Texas. Let’s go,’” Saeed said, laughing.
Influence
The influence of South Asian cultures is almost everywhere.
The movie theater in Frisco shows films in Telegu, Tamil and Hindi. At Tikka Taco in Irving, people can get tacos filled with foods such as tandoori chicken, lamb or paneer tikka.
Sometimes Indian politics appear in the Dallas suburbs. A number of people recently joined protests outside Frisco’s City Hall in support of Christians in India who claim a Frisco-based group supports Hindu nationalists threatening their churches.
However, Hanuman Temple now works with the City of Frisco for Holi. Holi is a yearly Hindu celebration also known as the Festival of Colors. People put colored powders on each other. The temple also organizes food donations, health fairs and other community services.
Laxmi Tummala is Hanuman temple’s secretary. Tummala said her group does not want to be apart from the wider community. “We don’t want to just be here and be isolated," she said.
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Terry Tang and Mike Schneider reported on this story for the Associated Press. John Russell adapted it for VOA Learning English.
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cricket – n. a game played on a large field by two teams who try to score by hitting a small ball with a bat and then running between two sets of wooden sticks
ranch – n. a large farm especially in the U.S. where animals (such as cattle, horses, and sheep) are raised
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Why Hallmark’s ‘A Big Fat Family Christmas’ left Asian American communities divided SF Chronicle DatebookAt the intersection of 58th Street and Queens Boulevard, deep in the heart of Woodside, Queens, and far from iconic city centers like Times Square and Central Park, is a marker: “The Geographic Center of NYC.” It shows compass points for north, south, east, and west. It’s not actually the geographic center of New York — that honor likely falls somewhere in Bushwick — and, according to Atlas Obscura, no one knows why the marker is there or how it got approved. Someone decided to declare it a center, and so it was.
In “Dear Shirley,” a video work by Emmy Catedral, the narrator walks to the Geographic Center of NYC, calling it “a cemented, chiseled monument to someone’s center.” The video’s namesake is Shirley Kwan, a Hong Kong actress whose scenes were cut from Wong Kar Wai’s film Happy Together (1997). Never shown was Kwan’s rendition of the iconic Mexican crooner “Cucurrucucú Paloma,” Tomás Méndez’s ode to a grieving lover.
“Shirley,” the narrator calls out, “I’ve only seen from English query results on the Internet, a version of your life with sensational stories of your lostness. I hope you’re making it through these years with ordinary joys that never have to make the cut.” Kwan recorded “Cucurrucucú Paloma” for a live audience that did get recorded and released, and the video is exquisite. In “Dear Shirley,” Catedral mixes this soundtrack with renditions by Lola Beltrán and Caetano Veloso. Just as the spiritual, if not geographic, center of New York is ultimately a subjective experience, which version of Cucurrucucú speaks to the center of your soul is up to you.
Catedral is one of eight artists in Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America, an exhibition at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College. Curated by Herb Tam, curator and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America, the show looks at Asian American art through quiet works that explore this sociopolitical identity. The artists in Understatements “propose a daily practice of intimate gestures to confront similar negotiations of the world,” as Tam writes in his curatorial statement. “They encourage close, slow readings — getting lost in order to find new ways out.”
Lostness is the central tension of Yu-Wen Wu’s “Walking X v.1 (Boston to Taipei—an instructional walking journal—v.1),” a two-sided collage on paper in which the artist pasted Google Maps’s walking directions from Boston to Taipei. Wu, whose family immigrated to the United States in the 1960s, reflects on movement with two other works — “Walking VII” and “Walking V.” Both are considerably more abstract, composed of flowing lines, dots, and circles. If migration is often presented as a one-directional story of triumph over adversity, Wu’s Random Walks series seems to invite the viewer to see it for what it is: a winding, impossible journey that complicates family, identity, home, and safety.
Strewn across the gallery floor in gentle curves are kenzan, or “sword mountains,” used to hold flowers in the Japanese flower arrangement practice called ikebana. Part of Kiani Ferris’s Path series, these objects rarely get attention in a finished arrangement and sometimes disappear entirely within a ceramic container or vase. Displayed without flowers, they are oddly beautiful and idiosyncratic on their own. The paths laid out by Ferris encourage a different sort of wandering through the space than what might be a typical meander, and I found myself jumping around between works in response while making sure not to accidentally kick over the pieces.
The daily affairs of life undergird much of the show. Sculptural works like Megan Mi-Ai Lee’s “Lashes” and “Slippers,” both cast in bronze, and Mika Agari’s “Fragments of a Moon Puzzle,” made of glass, salt, gemstones, puzzle pieces, and bouncy balls, invite us to consider the scraps of the mundane. Agari’s assemblage centers around a found puzzle of the lunar surface, and Lee exhibits the lashes and slippers in perfect repose, waiting to be picked up and used one day.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Yuto Nakamura offers us images of journeys around East Coast cities. In “Wendy’s on a Gleaming Hill,” Nakamura presents exactly what the title describes, in a watercolor scene set in Norwich, Connecticut. Xingjian Ding’s “Doom” and “Blue World” are acrylic on canvas paintings of ice skaters’ skates and torsos in motion. And the colorful circles of stream-of-consciousness writing in Sharmistha Ray’s Blindspot series serve as commemorations of a daily meditation.
So often, exhibitions about identity in the United States focus on the politics, oppressions, and complex and often violent histories that come with living minoritized and racialized lives. This is important — at a time when anti-Asian hate forces many people to live in fear, we need to understand the decades of struggle that preceded today’s escalations.
But equally important is the ordinariness of being a person of Asian descent in the United States. Sometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience. Sometimes, working on a moon puzzle, playing with bouncy balls, putting on slippers, and hitting up a Wendy’s is enough. Like Ferris’s kenzan arrangements, we often miss the beauty of the mundane just beneath the surface.
In his curatorial statement, Tam writes about his undergraduate studies, which included reading important political works from thinkers like Maxine Hong, Carlos Bulosan, and Ronald Takaki. “I equated being Asian American,” he notes, “with much more unremarkable things like the trudging, boring work of the family dry cleaning business, knowing how to the measure the right water level in a pot of rice, and having a cadre of Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese American friends who would passively-aggressively mock each other’s cultures while sharing a mutual sense of outsiderness to a perceived mainstream.”
I paused in front of Mika Agari’s “Little Salty Bubble,” a sheer curtain hanging from bungee cords in the corner of the museum. Embroidered bubbles and text in the center and along the edges read as poems dedicated to long journeys and the sufferings therein. The tiny script running along the edge asks us to contemplate the end of planet Earth and a necessary sojourn to Mars — “In 2045, I might kiss the Earth good bye for a cheap ticket to Mars on a budget ship.” The larger words in the center contemplate the heartbreak, rather than the heroism, of leaving Earth forever:
tell me how to feel when I’m in space where nothing has a weight & our tears never dry but instead take shape
Maybe Agari is talking about the Asian American immigration journey. Maybe the artist is suggesting, through the sheer curtain, the flimsy protection we have against the collision course of climate change, hyper-capitalism, and big technology. What I see is an understated exploration of the aesthetics of heartbreak as it pours forth from the body. So often, contained within the little salty bubble of a single tear, we find the big lessons we’re not yet ready to accept.
Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America continues at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum (Queens College, Klapper Hall, Flushing, Queens) through January 6, 2022. The exhibition was curated by Herb Tam.
Editor’s Note, 12/23/22, 11:07am EST: A previous version of this post misspelled Megan Mi-Ai Lee’s name. It has been corrected.
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