AASF Sponsored Webinar: The Contributions of Asian Americans in U.S. Science and Engineering
February 26, 2022
Speaker: Prof. Steven Chu.
Nobel Laureate and the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy, Stanford University
Advancing Justice – AAJC Commends End to China Initiative, Calls for Transparency and Vows to Watch Dismantling Closely
February 23, 2022
AASF fully supports AAJC’s statement made on Feb 23, 2022.
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an end to the controversial “China Initiative,” and a series of changes to their national security approach to address concerns of profiling of Asian Americans and immigrants lifted up by Advancing Justice – AAJC and other civil rights and academic groups.
A Statement Responding to Amy Wax’s Racist Comments Towards Asian Americans
January 27, 2022
On December 24, 2021, Amy Wax, a Law Professor at the University of Pennsylvania made racist comments in public towards Asian and Asian-American communities, which was in Conversation with Brown University Professor Glenn Loury on the Glenn Show. On January 5, 2022, Amy Wax responded the overwhelming criticisms of her words. She further made worse racist remark: “… I think the United States is better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration”.
We, the Asian American Scholar Forum, give our statement to express our strong disagreement of her racist comments.
All charges against China Initiative defendant Gang Chen have been dismissed
January 24, 2022
By Eileen Guoarchive, MIT Technology Review, January 20, 2022
New U.S. guidance could mitigate racial profiling of Asian academics, officials say
January 24, 2022
By Kimmy Yam, NBC News,
Jan. 21, 2022
AASF Webinar: Reflecting on Professor Gang Chen’s Case and Looking Ahead to the Future of the China Initiative
January 24, 2022
Click for more details on the upcoming webinar of Professor Gang Chen’s first public appearance after all charges against him have been dismissed.
AASF Webinar: The China Initiative and Professor Anming Hu’s Case
December 18, 2021
December 18, 2021 Professor Anming Hu of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was the first academic to stand trial under the Department of Justice’s China
AASF Webinar: Managing Academic Collaborations with Chinese Institutions at U.S. Universities
November 17, 2021
November 17, 2021 The tensions in relations between China and the United States and a number of high-profile criminal cases under the China Initiative of
Open Letter to Dr. Eric Lander Re: NSPM-33
November 9, 2021
In November 2021, AASF sent the following letter to Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President, to express the importance of open science and academic freedom, and to submit our comments regarding the implementation of National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33), “Presidential Memorandum on United States Government Support Research and Development National Security Policy.”
Call for Your support on Open Letters to End “China Initiative”
October 22, 2021
Dear Colleagues: We, the members of the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF), call for your support of several open letters to end the “China Initiative”.