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State Sen. Nguyen proposes UBI - WA state style By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY OLYMPIA — State Sen. Joe Nguyen is proposing a Washington state version of Andrew Yang’s universal basic income. Nguyen introduced Senate Bill 6625 on Jan. 24—which would give 500 adults in Washington state $500 a month for 18 months. The program would cost approximately $7 million over the state’s two-year budget cycle. The trial benefit would be available to people who are see NGUYEN on 16

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY UW Medical Center – Northwest admitted a patient on Jan. 28 who is being evaluated for possible coronavirus or other respiratory illnesses. The patient is in satisfactory condition and in isolation. The hospital is working in collaboration with Public Health – Seattle & King County and test results

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were expected within 1 to 2 days. In addition, three University of Washington (UW) students were recently screened for coronavirus—they developed symptoms after returning home from Wuhan. The UW Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases announced on Jan. 28 that it received negative test results for the second see CORONAVIRUS on 13

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85,000 museum artifacts feared lost in NYC Chinatown fire NEW YORK (AP) — Some 85,000 artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese migration to the United States may have been lost in a fire that struck a building in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a museum official said. The president of the Museum of Chinese in America told The New York Times that most of the thousands

of historic and artistic items in its collection were probably lost in the fire that started on the night of Jan. 23 and tore through a building where the museum’s acquisitions were stored. “One hundred percent of the museum’s collection, other than what is on view,’’ see NYC on 5

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OCA Lunar New Year gala

Seven new members have been elected to join the Seattle Symphony Board of Directors including Cheryl Lee, an attorney with Helsell Fetterman, and Diena Diena Lee Mann Lee Mann, Vice Cheryl Lee President of Digital Strategy at iLink. “The world recognizes Seattle as an exciting community that values inclusivity, invention, and curiosity,” shared Krishna Thiagarajan, President & CEO of the Seattle Symphony. Active in the Asian American community, Lee is a recipient of the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation’s “Living Pioneer Award.” In 2014, the South Korean government recognized Lee for her service to the Korean American community with the President’s Commendation Medal. Mann is an active participant in the advancement of STEM education. She is a passionate advocate for education and access to classical music and believes in enhancing reach and engagement through digital experiences. 

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Rep. Thai and Sen. Nguyen hosted Gov. Inslee, Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib, other legislators, and community members for a Lunar New Year celebration at the Capitol on Jan. 24.

From left: Lua Pritchard, Manny Lee, Bruce Huang (OCA-GS President), Abdulnaser Abdulmalik, Maxine Chan, Tammy Chin (President of SCAA), Daisy Mar, and Terry Mar (SCAA Founders Family).

The reception was attended by Gov. Jay Inslee, Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib, former Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen, and other state elected officials. 

The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) held its Golden Circle Awards and Lunar New Year dinner on Jan. 20. OCA honored Maxine Chan, Manny Le, Abdul Naser Malik, Lua Pritchard, and the Seattle Chinese Athletic Association. OCA’s mission is to advance the social, political, and economic wellbeing of Asian Pacific Islanders in the United States. 

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It was a packed house on Jan. 25 at the Wing Luke Museum as it hosted its annual Lunar New Year celebration and fair. Attendees got to see a lion dance, take part in art activities, and see the fireworks. Museum services staff told the Northwest Asian Weekly that about 1,800 people turned out for the event. 

From left: Michael Park, Bobby Lee, Andrew Kim, Mike Fong, and Michelle Chen

State Rep. My-Linh Thai and state Sen. Joe Nguyen hosted a Lunar New Year reception at the Washington State Capitol Building on Jan. 24. In 2019, Thai sponsored the first ever resolution recognizing Lunar New Year in the Washington State House of Representatives. 2020 is the second year that Thai has offered this resolution, which recognizes a holiday of great importance to the state’s Asian communities and celebrates the heritage of the state’s many Asian residents.

U.S. Congressman Andy Kim, who represents the 3rd District of New Jersey, made a campaign stop in western Washington last week. A Jan. 26 event was hosted in Federal Way by Cheryl Lee, Susan Lee, Jeffrey Roh, and Shari Song. A son of Korean immigrants, Kim was elected in 2018 and he is running for re-election. 

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Sometimes when you meet those few remaining academics that work directly with East Asian leaders, they have an exuberance that is infectious. Don Hellmann cannot stop talking about his trips to China and his research on Japan. It’s not that he’s immodest. It’s that he’s so exuberant and honored that it gives one a whole new feeling about East Asia, as if you are discovering it again for the first time, with Hellmann as a guide. Hellmann has just been awarded the Order of the

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Rising Sun, the highest honor civilians can receive from the Japanese emperor, for his promotion of academic exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States. But it’s not that. His book on Japan, which smashed all stereotypes about the country, was just named one of the top books published by the University of California Press in the last 125 years. But it’s not that. Finally, he’s just returned from three trips advising the Chinese government about its struggling Belt and Road Initiative with which it hopes to reshape the world. But again, it’s not that. see HELLMANN on 12

Complaint alleges WA lawmaker used a racist term for Chinese Americans By Leona Vaughn WNPA NEWS SERVICE Washington Asians for Equality and the American Coalition for Equality filed a complaint against state Sen. Patty Kuderer, demanding an apology for her use of what they considered racist language.

The complaint, filed on Jan. 20, was over something she said during a hearing before the Senate Housing and Affordability Committee on Jan. 17. Kuderer used the term “Chinese fire drill” to refer to a brief moment of confusion during the hearing. “Chinese fire drill is a racist term,” Linda Yang, head of Washington Asians for Equality, wrote in an email.

“We are deeply offended. There are many Chinese Americans living in Sen. Kuderer’s 48th District. Her senseless use of this offensive racist term demonstrated her racist attitude towards Chinese Americans that we have experienced over and over.” see KUDERER on 16

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Whistleblower: Border crackdown on Iranian travelers was a local initiative By Patrick Grubb A Blaine-area Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer says the recent “extreme vetting” of travelers with Iranian backgrounds occurred under the direction of Blaine port managers. The allegation was revealed by local immigration attorney Len Saunders, a frequent commentator on border issues. As earlier reported by The Northern Light, more than 60 U.S. citizens and permanent residents of Iranian heritage were subjected to enhanced screenings on Jan. 4 and 5 as they entered the United States at the Peace Arch border crossing. Many were returning home from an Iranian pop concert that had taken place in Vancouver. Following a U.S. airstrike on an Iranian military commander in Iraq, some of the travelers reported being

detained for up to 12 hours, while others said they were turned away and refused entry due to CBP’s lack of capacity to handle them. Border security was enhanced nationwide during the period of escalating military tensions with Iran. At the time, it was thought that the detentions were limited to the Peace Arch crossing, but the CBP whistleblower said Iranian-born travelers were detained at other border crossings in the Blaine sector as well. Saunders told The Northern Light that the CBP officer asked not to be identified due to concerns about retribution, with the officer citing the existence of a “blacklist” of officers blocked from career advancement. Travelers were selected for counterterrorism inspections based solely upon their national origin, the officer said, adding that there were no immigration or

California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin to retire SAN FRANCISCO (AP)— A legal trailblazer and longestserving sitting member of the California Supreme Court said he’ll retire this year, giving Gov. Gavin Newsom an opportunity to shape the state’s highest court. Justice Ming W. Chin will retire Aug. 31 after nearly 25 Justice Ming W. Chin years on the state Supreme Court. Chin was the first Chinese American appointed to the court, by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson in 1996, and its second Asian American. The current sevenmember court has three Asian Americans, including Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye. Chin gained a reputation for being prolific, thoughtful and hard-working. He authored a landmark decision that paved the way for spousal abuse to be used as a defense in murder cases and joined the majority in 1997 to strike down a law requiring minors to get parental or judicial approval before having an abortion. He is an expert on DNA evidence. A former justice once said Chin’s opinions were characterized by “clarity and courage.”

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“If that is what is written about me in 50 years, I would be happy,’’ he said. Chin, 77, is the son of Chinese immigrants and the youngest of eight children who grew up working on his parents’ potato farm near Klamath Falls, Oregon. His parents did not have the opportunity to attend elementary school, but they stressed upon their children the power of education. He said he was inspired to become a lawyer after his private Catholic boarding school stopped providing lodging for its students, and he went to live with the family of a local judge. “His career has produced opinions and dissents that are strong statements of principle expressed with admirable clarity. They are also often stated with good humor and a collegiality that I’m sure his colleagues will miss,“ said Wilson in a news release issued by the court. Asian Americans are well represented in the legal profession. But a study by California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu and Yale University law students showed they are sorely underrepresented in the profession’s top ranks. Justice Joyce Kennard, who retired in 2014, was the first Asian American named to the California Supreme Court. 

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SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Washington state is considering whether to block President Donald Trump from diverting billions of dollars from military construction projects to build sections of border wall along the Southern border. U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein said on Jan. 23 that she hoped to rule within a few weeks on the state’s challenge to the administration. An appeals court ruling expected soon in a similar challenge could take precedence over her decision. Washington is far from the U.S.-Mexico border, but Attorney General Bob Ferguson argues that the state nevertheless would be harmed if the administration’s plans go forward. The Pentagon has shifted $3.6 billion from military construction projects—one of them in Washington state—to build 175 Attorney General Bob miles of border fencing in four Ferguson states. Losing that construction money—$89 million for a pier at Naval Base Kitsap west of Seattle—would cost the state $2.6 million in tax revenue over the next two years, and that’s enough to give Washington standing to challenge the administration’s plans in court, Ferguson said. Lawyers for Washington and the Justice Department argued the case before Rothstein on Jan. 23 amid fastsee FERGUSON on 15

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BEIJING (AP) — Kobe Bryant was a hugely popular figure in Asia, no more so than in China where basketball rivals soccer as the most popular sport. However, his death in a helicopter accident comes at an awkward time between the country and the league. National broadcaster CCTV pulled all NBA games off the air following a tweet in October from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey expressing support for Hong Kong’s prodemocracy protests. The Chinese Basketball Association, led by former Rockets MVP Yao Ming, announced

it would suspend all cooperation with the Texas-based team. Yao and the association have yet to comment on the Jan. 26 crash in California that killed Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people. However, Yi Jianlian, the other Chinese player to find major success in the NBA, took to China’s Weibo micro-blogging site to praise Bryant for teaching him the value of persistence. “Thank you! Kobe! Hope father and daughter continue to enjoy basketball in heaven! We will always remember you!,” wrote Yi, who signed with six different NBA

teams, including briefly the Lakers in 2016. “Rest in peace to the legend,” he added in English. Bryant’s popularity among Chinese fans was rivaled only by Yao, LeBron James, and Michael Jordan. His playing appearances, including the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics won by the U.S., were far exceeded by his promotional appearances in the country, both on behalf of his own brand and basketball generally. At a 2013 Lakers preseason game against Golden State in Beijing, the arena see BRYANT on 15

Airlines offer flight refunds to China as death toll rises British Airways (BA) is allowing passengers bound for Hong Kong and China the option of postponing or refunding their flights as the coronavirus death toll increases. On BA’s help section on its website, the airline says, “We fully understand that you may want to change your travel plans as a result of the recent coronavirus outbreak in China, and so whilst we await further advice from the Government and health organisations, we are offering any customers due to fly to or from China including Hong Kong until Feb. 23 the option to refund or rebook.”

American Airlines issued flight waivers that allow a free change on travel to, through and from Beijing and Shanghai. Delta has done the same. In addition to Beijing and Shanghai, United Airlines also flies to Chengdu, and are offering waivers for bookings to all three cities. Air China, China Southern Airlines, and China Eastern Airlines are also reportedly offering ticket refunds. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is offering refunds for tickets to or from mainland China which were bought before Jan. 25 and are for travel up to Feb. 28. 

NYC from 1 said Nancy Yao Maasbach, the president of the museum. She said that the collection was one of a kind and that she was “just distraught’’ after receiving the news. The fire started in a former school that more recently housed a senior center, the Chen Dance Center and a number of community groups. The museum is nearby and stored its collection in the structure that was hit by fire. A Fire Department spokesman said the fire was still not under control on Jan. 24, 24 hours after it was first reported. Videos and photos posted to social media showed flames bursting out of windows and flowing heavily from the roof of the building, which Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter was “a pillar to the Chinatown community.’’

“The interior became untenable and the units had to be withdrawn. It was too dangerous in the building.’’ — Daniel Nigro Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said firefighters were forced to battle the blaze from the outside. “The interior became untenable and the units had to be withdrawn,’’ he said. “It was too dangerous in the building.’’ Maasbach said she was told by emergency responders

that no one will be able to enter the building to retrieve items for at least three weeks. She said the museum’s artifacts, which include textiles, restaurant menus and tickets for ship’s passage, have likely been soaked by water and will be irreparably damaged by then. About 35,000 items in the collection had been digitized and those files were backed up, she said. Nine firefighters and a 59-year-old man were injured in the blaze. The man was rescued from the fifth floor of the building and was reported to be in serious but stable condition. The firefighters sustained minor injuries. The cause of the fire is under investigation. City Council member Margaret Chin tweeted that the fire was “devastating.’’ “We will work to make sure vital services aren’t lost,“ Chin told WNBC. “I know the neighborhood is in shock,“ de Blasio tweeted. ’’We’re going to help the community get through this.” 

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LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Hing Hay Park, 423 Maynard Ave. S., Seattle 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

2020 CHINESE NEW YEAR GALA Hosted by the Hong Kong Association of WA Foundation, benefiting the Seattle Asian Art Museum featuring Luly Yang Runway Fashion Show Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 6th Ave., Seattle 5:30 p.m.

KIN ON’S LUNAR NEW YEAR MAHJONG NIGHT Kin On, 4416 S. Brandon St., Seattle 6:30-9 p.m. KIDS STORY TIME WITH BOOK, “THE YEAR OF THE RAT” Wing Luke Museum 11 a.m.

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8 APCC’S 22ND ANNUAL NEW YEAR CELEBRATION FEATURING VIETNAM, COUNTRY AND CULTURE Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Free admission apcc96.org

ASIAN ART MUSEUM HOUSEWARMING: FREE REOPENING WEEKEND Seattle Asian Art Museum 9 a.m. seattleartmuseum.org

LUNAR NEW YEAR IN LINCOLN DISTRICT 2020 Lincoln District Tacoma, 38th St., Tacoma 10 a.m.-4 p.m. CID COALITION’S THIRD ANNIVERSARY Bush Garden Restaurant, 614 Maynard Ave. S., Seattle 2-4 p.m.

10 2020 CENSUS INFO SESSION IN THE CID International District/ Chinatown Community Center, 719 8th Ave. S., Seattle 1:30-3 p.m.

12 & 13 PASIFIKA SUMMIT South Seattle College 8 a.m. on 3/12 8:30 a.m. on 3/13 7 p.m. on 3/13 RSVP at https://bit. ly/2t4nLQ0

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By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Local performer and writer Susan Lieu had her one-woman drama “140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother” pretty much perfected, in terms of performance, by the time she left town for a 10-city tour. But she didn’t figure on certain kinds of offstage drama. “The worst thing about being on the road was feeling dismissed and taken advantage of from venues that did not put artists first,” Lieu recalled. “For many of these cities, the financial arrangement was a straight venue rental. But when things went drastically wrong right before or during the show, they didn’t care or choose to make it right. And frankly, I didn’t have much leverage once the contracts were signed. I’ve learned about how to restructure contracts to make them more artistfriendly and also will remember who to never work with again… “When I walked onstage, I had to put it all behind me and show up 100% for my audience—even if light cues were deleted, the projector was broken, programs went missing, and a cabaret show decided to scream and shout for minutes during intimate moments during my show… It’s been a great training ground to become more business savvy and focused as a performer, that’s for sure!” Lieu is back in Seattle for an update to her show, “Over 140 Lbs.” The second show serves as an “extended sequel” to the first show, which started with the death of Lieu’s mother during what was supposed to be routine plastic surgery, then expanded outward to cover family history, family damage, and the sustained process of grief. The new show features roughly 40% new content, much, though not all, of it revolving around Lieu’s journey through pregnancy, and her determination to take the stage while still pregnant—she’ll be

around eight months on her new opening night. “While the first show was an act of retribution, this new show is an act of love,” explained Lieu. The focus isn’t on avenging my mother’s death, and my quest to know her. Rather, it’s my own personal journey of becoming a mother, given the history of intergenerational trauma as a child of refugees, and society’s pressures. My body changing through the lens of race, class, and gender.” The new production finds her reunited with director Sara Porkalob, who also directed the original. Porkalob urged Lieu to keep a pregnancy diary. The two women met and discussed what Lieu had written, emphasizing details that resonated deeply with Lieu and overarching themes for structure. They wrote new material based on that, and also reach back to use material worked up for, but deleted from, the earlier show. Always bold and audacious, Lieu played 12 characters on stage the first time around, and she’s upped the ante to 14 characters. Of course, her condition necessitates a few changes in approach. “I certainly can’t walk as quickly or bow as deeply as I used to! Given this, we’ve updated my movement onstage to efficiently tell the story while taking care of my body. We incorporated an intermission since I need to use the restroom more as well. I would also say I am starting to notice a decrease in my energy level. “Working into the night is harder than it used to be so it’s important for me to get as much done in the morning and afternoon when I feel the most fresh. I hope to start training my body to feel energetic since there are mostly evening shows!” After finishing up the latest production, Lieu plans to work with patient advocates looking to raise see OVER 140LBS on 11

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Review: Novel by Paul Yoon offers rare view of war-torn Laos By KENDAL WEAVER ASSOCIATED PRESS Three homeless teenagers in war-wracked Laos in 1969 find shelter in a once-grand farm manor that has been turned into a crumbling, makeshift hospital. Cries of patients are echoed by the scream of bombs. There is little food. Morphine is running out. This manor, once the art-filled estate of a debauched French tobacco magnate, is the opening setting of Paul Yoon’s gripping new novel, “Run Me to Earth.’’ The house is an eerie, exhausting place where the teens hold each other to survive —sleeping, as one says, “like young animals in a den.’’ The teens—17-year-old boys Alisak and Prany and Prany’s sister, Noi, 16—help a piano-playing doctor, Vang, and his staff carry out medical duties at the farmhouse. They get around the territory on motorbikes. They are ostensibly on the side of the royal government as the insurgent communists, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese, move stealthily through rural backwaters. But they also are at the mercy of the government’s ally, the United States, which over several years will drop a massive number of bombs on the countryside. Many of the bombs fail to explode—

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until triggered later accidentally by a passerby. This aerial bombing campaign in Laos, and its deadly aftermath on the ground over ensuing decades, has rarely been the subject of American fiction. While the bombing is a dreaded backdrop in Yoon’s absorbing novel, his story is less about the war than about the humanity and hopes of the Lao people living in the midst of its horror. “A Cold War?’’ says a woman nicknamed Auntie, who helps villagers escape. “So many didn’t even know the difference between a Communist and an anti-Communist, they just wanted to survive.’’ Yoon, highly regarded for his previous fiction, including the novel “Snow Hunters,’’ writes with a soft, measured hand. He calmly builds memorable scenes even when events turn violent. The title comes from part of a line in a W.S. Merwin poem cited in the book’s epigraph: “I have worn the fur of a wolf and the shepherd’s dogs have run me to earth.’’ The story unfolds in chapters that relate the experiences of main characters. Eventually it spans decades and takes on a global reach as scenes move from Laos to sites in New York, France and Spain. With the Indochina wars of the 1960s and 1970s darkening his canvas, Yoon brightens the mix with riveting colors of youth and innocence—even as they are being lost. 

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■ EDITORIAL Ever since news broke of the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in the United States (a Snohomish County man in his 30s), it seems as though people around me are panicking. I recently returned from a trip to Asia with a cold and persistent cough. Even though I didn’t set foot in China, people have jokingly asked if I was in Wuhan—where the outbreak originated. It was funny the first few times. Now, it’s just annoying. Another friend who lives in Los Angeles asked if it was safe to fly into Sea-Tac Airport since that’s the airport the first confirmed U.S. case flew to. Really? Was the airport shut down? No. People are just not thinking rationally. On Jan. 25, I had planned to have dinner out with some friends to celebrate the Lunar New Year. We chose a seafood buffet place in Redmond. The morning of, one of them suggested that “since it’s a Chinese restaurant (it’s not) and because of the virus concerns, should we go

somewhere else?” She said she had a weakened immune system and was concerned. For crying out loud! First of all, the location where we were planning to have dinner wasn’t even a Chinese restaurant. Second of all, if she’s concerned about her weakened immune system, maybe she should just never gather in groups or eat out, ever. This person decided to stay home. The rest of us carried on with our dinner plans without incident. But I felt attacked and that her comments were ignorant and dumb, even racist. It blows my mind that people around me are overreacting to this news. Quoting the Washington Department of Health (DOH), “The immediate health risk from novel coronavirus to Washington residents is still considered low at this time.” The DOH also says, “Allowing for misinformation to spread, stigma to thrive, or otherwise ostracizing community members is counter-productive to improving public health and safety.” Stop overreacting and don’t stop living your life.

■ WORLD NEWS

Asian demand for face masks soars on fears of Chinese virus By HARUKA NUGA and GRANT PECK TOKYO (AP) — Panic and pollution drive the market for protective face masks, so business is booming in Asia, where fear of the virus from China is straining supplies and helping make mask-wearing the new normal. Demand for face masks and hand sanitizing liquid has soared, as both local residents and visitors from China stock up on such products as a reassuring precaution.

Factories are rushing to boost production as the number of infections and deaths from the new virus first found in the central Chinese city of Wuhan climbs. In some parts of Asia, wearing of surgical masks has become mandatory, for now. “Sales of disinfectant products and hygiene masks have been rising since last week. First Chinese tourists came to our store to buy these products to bring back with them. They bought in bulk, see FACE MASKS on 16

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Here are steps you can take to reduce your risk of getting any viral respiratory infections: • Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands • Avoid close contact with people who are sick • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, then throw the tissue in the trash and wash your hands • Clean and disinfect objects and surfaces • It is also important to stay at home away from others if you are sick.  For further questions, call the Snohomish County Health District between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily at 425388-5088, or call the state health department at 800525-0127 and press the pound key.

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Major Asian gene study to help doctors battle disease

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., — An ambitious new study of genes in Asian populations is filling in big gaps in our understanding of human genetics, shedding light on the history of human migration and ultimately aiming to improve our ability to treat disease. Researchers from dozens of institutions around the world, including the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine, are seeking to address the under-representation of Asian populations in genetic research. Working as the GenomeAsia100K Consortium, they have examined the genomes of 1,739 people from 219 different population groups in 64 countries across Asia. The

ultimate goal, as the group’s name suggests, is to sequence the genomes of 100,000 people across Asia. This will produce a treasure trove of genetic information to help medical researchers and doctors better understand and treat genetic diseases, identify those at risk and even determine how patients will respond to drugs. “Under-representation of Asian populations in genetic studies has meant that medical relevance for more than half of the human population is reduced,” said researcher Aakrosh Ratan, PhD, of UVA’s Department see ASIAN GENE on 14

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HELLMANN from 3 What it is, for the University of Washington (UW) emeritus professor, is a fascination with East Asia that started when he was a soldier in Korea that led him to a profound belief that the region will always remain different, but that its differences can be cherished and even celebrated. He has used this philosophy to win over critics both in the United States and East Asia. And he’s still using it, at 86 (he looks half his age), to begin to transform the educational systems on both continents. It started after he had gone to Princeton and waffled about pursuing a business career. He ended up in Korea during the Korean War. Faced with an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever, his officers were ordering camp guards to shoot any orphans that came down from nearby caves to scavenge garbage near the base. “I said I didn’t sign up to shoot orphans,” said Hellmann. The military was also bringing in truckloads of prostitutes every day. Most were war widows trying to keep their families alive. In the midst of this, Hellmann turned to the Asian culture that surrounded him. He became enthralled with rituals of singing and burying done by the Koreans. During leave, he travelled to Japan, which he found culturally largely in a pre-war state, despite the ravages of World War II. “I knew I would never be able to fully understand the culture, but I wanted to try,” he said. After the war, he returned to the United States and went to U.C. Berkeley for a Ph.D. in Japanese studies. At the time, most outsiders believed Japan was being utterly transformed through its occupation to become a model of its patron: a democracy just like the United States. For those in Japan, even for those who felt this might not be the case, it was sacrosanct to keep up this fiction.

IRANIAN TRAVELERS from 4 October 2018 to September 2019, compared to 312 in the previous 12-month period. According to Saunders, CBP’s Seattle Field Office accounted for 309 and 91, respectively, of those numbers, about 50 percent of the total in 2019 versus 29 percent in 2018. There are four field offices on the northern border. The CBP officer said there was very little support from line officers for the ERs that the Blaine area has been imposing on Canadians since last year, describing the ERs as outrageous and contrary to the Immigration and Nationality Act and past government practice. CBP’s Seattle Office of Field Operations, headquartered in Blaine, is responsible for 54 ports of entry along the northern border from Washington to Minnesota. The Office of Field Operations director overseeing the ports is Adele Fasano, who was named to her position in the spring of 2019. She was previously port director for New York and New Jersey and director of field operations in San Diego. While in San Diego, Fasano was named in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security brought by former CBP officer Julia Davis, who claimed that Fasano

Hellmann, for his dissertation, analyzed the way Japan had conducted its peace negotiations with the Soviet Union. He found that despite surface changes, such as imposing a democratic system on Japan and breaking up large industrial and financial business conglomerates, the traditional culture and society had not changed. He doubted if its values would ever be fully changed. This was a major departure at the time. As he moved on in life, working for elite government institutions (Nelson Rockefeller hired him to write several books, and George H.W. Bush solicited him as an adviser), he elaborated on this essential theme. He believed that after the end of the Cold War, the United States had an opportunity to create new multilateral institutions for cooperation to embrace common interests with a region that would always have different values. But he was disappointed that he was never able to persuade then-President Bush to develop new institutions for international cooperation. “What happened was, he was president of the U.S. when the Cold War ended, and he said, ‘I have trouble with the vision thing,’” said Hellmann. His pioneering work in education has set the cornerstone for the UW Jackson School of International Studies, where students engage in task forces to study current topics, as if they were going to write policy recommendations. They then bring in an outside expert to evaluate their work. Last year, a group of more than a dozen mostly Chinese students studied the South China Sea (for the first time ever critical of their government) and then brought in the former admiral of the U.S. Navy to test them. And last year in China, his philosophy of respecting different values won over the Chinese leadership, which, according to Hellmann, fears that the United States is out to destroy them. As a result of a number of papers he’s written over the years, the Chinese government sought out his advice on its

had engaged in retribution after Davis had made a whistleblowing disclosure to the FBI. While in New Jersey, her office was the subject of complaints by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras for being repeatedly harassed when returning from overseas. Poitras won the 2015 Academy Award for best documentary feature for Citizenfour about Edward Snowden. In 2018, Fasano was reported to receive a base salary of $187,000, which puts her in the top 10 percent of the highest paid CBP officials. There has been significant backlash to the reports that people of Iranian heritage were subjected to harsh vetting. National and international media have picked up the story, while The Seattle Times published an editorial on Jan. 17 calling for answers from CBP. Governor Jay Inslee and other politicians have criticized CBP on the matter, while the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) disclosed that it was opening an investigation into the incidents. A request for comment made to CRCL was unanswered at press time. Saunders said he had yet to be contacted by the office, nearly two weeks after he reported being an eyewitness to the detentions. 

38 YEARS struggling Belt Road Initiative (BRI), with which China has hoped to remake the world. “The Chinese think I have something to say without insulting them,” he said during an interview at the faculty club at the UW. In January, at a forum hosted by the country’s leading research institution, the Academy of Social Sciences, Hellmann was invited to give a paper on the BRI. He argued that any attempt to remake the world by purely economic means would fail. “If you want to use the BRI to basically run Asia, and through that the world, you have to do more than build ports and roads,” he told them. “You have to earn it, you have to have trust and legitimacy, your foreign policy is going to have to include that dimension,” he said. By way of offering encouragement, he praised the Chinese for already spending heavily on life sciences, which would benefit other countries. But Hellmann had been speaking for only a few minutes, when someone came in that was “clearly in authority and had the respect and deference” of the hundreds of Chinese in the room. The man launched his comments into the talk and suddenly took it in an entirely new direction. It turned out this was one of the architects of the BRI and a top adviser to Chinese President Xi Jinping—known as “Professor Yu.” Professor Yu’s comments were soon taken up by others. “Somebody else then interjected that the capacity for global leadership was easier for Asia and China,” said Hellmann. “They said that the U.S. and Europe, with their focus on the individual, was not capable of the kind of leadership China could provide,” with its focus on the group or a common good, he said. Hellmann, growing animated as he recounted the exchange, took the comments to heart and responded passionately.

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“I didn’t get into an argument with Professor Yu, saying that our values are better than your values. I said, ‘I don’t know what values are going to work. When we won World War I, we tried to create peace through the League of Nations and when we ended World War II, we ended colonialism. We may have been wrong in the implementation, but don’t tell me the humanistic nature of what we’re doing is incompatible and one is better than the other.” “The values are different,” he concluded. “You can’t say one set is better than the other.” At the end, Professor Yu said, “We have to agree to disagree, but we were taken aback by your presentation.” They asked him to come back in April and again in December. Hellmann delivered his talk in the Great Hall of the People, where the National People’s Congress meets. Xi Jinping was slated as the keynote speaker. Hellmann has been overwhelmed by the attention. Just minutes before his interview with Northwest Asian Weekly, one of the leaders of the UW asked him to entirely restructure the way international studies is taught at the university. And when he came into the faculty club for the interview, it looked like he had just come out of a whirlwind. But perhaps behind all this activity is a profound sense of loss. His wife died of cancer five years ago. Besides clearing brush on his land, Hellmann has just started to write his biography. “My life coincides with the American century,” he said. But it also coincides with the beginning of a new century. “We’re going to live in a world in which the Asian century and the American century are embedded into one. We’re going to have to get together without everyone saying that we’re singing from the same page in the songbook,” he said.  Mahlon can be reached at info@nwasianweekly.com.

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CORONAVIRUS from 1 of those three students. One student had previously tested negative, and the UW anticipates receiving test results soon for the third student. Also, the Sammamish Lunar New Year Celebration scheduled for Jan. 25 was canceled “out of an abundance of caution,” organizers said. In an email to news outlets on Jan. 24, Kate Langsdorf, of the City of Sammamish, wrote, “Community organizers have decided to take precautionary measures and be sensitive to the community by cancelling all performances, activities, and events for the day. Please note that there are currently no concerns of virus outbreak from authorities in King County; this was a committee organization decision and all community partners agreed to cancel the event.” Five people in the United States have been

confirmed to have the Wuhan coronavirus. Two in California and one in Arizona were diagnosed last weekend, with another in Chicago on Jan. 24. The first person, a man in his 30s, was hospitalized on Jan. 20 in Everett, where he’s being treated by a robot with a stethoscope and microphone that allows him to speak remotely with the doctor. The man is in an isolated room at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett that is away from other units and has a separate air filter. It was set up about five years ago during the Ebola crisis. This is the first time it was used in a real-life scenario. He arrived at Sea-Tac Airport on Jan. 15 after visiting family members in Wuhan, China. He took group transportation to his home, where he lives alone. The deadly new virus has infected hundreds in China, where the death toll climbed to 132 as of press time.

How is it spread?

Human coronaviruses are most commonly spread from an infected person to others through: • The air by coughing and sneezing • Close personal contact, such as touching or shaking hands • Touching an object or surface with the virus on it, then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes before washing your hands • Rarely, fecal contamination

What are the symptoms?

Symptoms of coronavirus may include: • Runny nose • Headache • Cough • Sore throat • Fever • A general feeling of being unwell If you have traveled to/from Wuhan City and have symptoms, contact a healthcare provider. If you have been notified by public health authorities that you might have been exposed, please follow instructions provided by your local health department.

How can I protect myself?

• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds • Avoid touching your eyes, nose,

or mouth with unwashed hands • Avoid close contact with people who are sick • Avoid close contact with others • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, then throw the tissue in the trash and wash your hands • Clean and disinfect objects and surfaces • It is also important for people to stay at home away from others if you are sick.

What is the treatment?

• There are no specific treatments for illnesses caused by human coronaviruses. Most people with common human coronavirus illness will recover on their own. However, you can do some things to relieve your symptoms, including: • Take pain and fever medications (caution: do not give aspirin to children) • Use a room humidifier or take a hot shower to help ease a sore throat and cough • If you are mildly sick, you should drink plenty of liquids, stay home and rest 

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YOUR VOICE BRYANT from 5 rang out with chants of “Kobe! Kobe!’’ despite the injured superstar not even having suited up for the game. Commemorations begin rolling in online, many of the accompanied by photos of Bryant and his daughter Gianna with the letters R.I.P. Others showed the two dressed in uniform walking away into clouds under a basketball net. “For our generation, our memories of the NBA begin with Jordan, and move through Kobe and Yao Ming. You were a part of our youth. Already missing the bright sun of Kobe. Go well,’’ wrote commentator “ZhanHao’’ on the popular Twitter-like Weibo messaging service. “Your willpower has inspired a generation. Thank you,’’ wrote “Teacher Kai Ting.’’ “I hope there is basketball in heaven. Kobe just went to another world to play basketball with his daughter,’’ wrote “Cici’s green paper.’’ At the Australian Open, Americans Coco Gauff and

FERGUSON from 4 moving developments in the case. The Sierra Club has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a related challenge to issue an order by Jan. 24 blocking the government from using the money. Meanwhile, the government is already working on sections of the wall and is planning to break ground on other sections, near El Paso, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona. Meanwhile, the administration has recently said it is now seeking to build an additional 270 miles of barriers. Border wall opponents, including Washington, have argued that under the Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse, not the president. Congress in late 2018 and early 2019 refused to give Trump all of the money he wanted for a border wall, leading to a 35-day partial government shutdown. Lawmakers eventually gave Trump just $1.4 billion in wall funding. In reaction, he declared a national emergency that, the administration says, allowed him to shift almost three times as much money from military accounts to wall building.

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Caty McNally wore written tributes to Bryant on their shoes during their doubles match. The tournament tweeted its condolences to the grieving families, and Romania’s Simona Halep said after winning her fourth round match that Bryant’s death was a “huge loss for the world, for the sport.’’ Australian tennis legend Rod Laver tweeted he was “terribly sad to wake up to this news.’’ In Taiwan, where the NBA also is an enormous draw, President Tsai Ing-wen tweeted that her “thoughts go out to the Bryant family & the families of all those who lost loved ones.” “Kobe inspired a generation of young Taiwanese basketball players, & his legacy will live on through those who loved him,” Tsai wrote. Philippine presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo noted that Bryant had been a frequent visitor to the Philippines. “He was well-loved by his Filipino fans,” Panelo said in a statement. “On the hard court, he was a sight to behold with his

dexterity and accuracy in sinking that ball in the ring. He was a master of his craft. The basketball world has lost one of its legendary greats,” Panelo said. “The Palace extends its deepest condolences to the family, friends, colleagues, loved ones and fans around the globe who Kobe left behind. We share in their grief.” In Japan, Tetsunori Tanimoto, an official at the Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association, in Kobe, central Japan, expressed his deep condolences for Kobe Bryant’s death. “He helped make Kobe Beef known throughout the world,’’ he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Kobe got his name, the legend goes, after his father ate Kobe beef during a visit to Japan and loved the taste. Tanimoto, who watches NBA games on TV but has never met Bryant, said people know the story about how Bryant got his name. “We have always felt a closeness to him,’’ he said. “It is so sad. And we offer our deepest condolences.’’ 

Andrew Hughes, an assistant Washington attorney general, told Rothstein during arguments that the administration is assaulting the separation of powers. “The fundamental question in this case is whether the administration is entitled to take money Congress repeatedly said it couldn’t have in order to build a border wall,’’ Hughes said. The state is also arguing that the way the government reassigned the money from military construction projects to building a border wall violated a number of other legal requirements, including that the money be necessary for military use rather than the civilian goal of better enforcing immigration laws. Hughes asked the judge to block the $3.6 billion entirely as a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act. Justice Department attorney Andrew Warden told the judge that the president acted within his authority to declare the national emergency and that the court should not second-guess the military’s discretion in shifting the money. The U.S. Supreme Court last summer lifted a court

order that prevented the government from spending $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s money for military pensions and anti-drug efforts. But legal challenges continue with regard to that money as well as the $3.6 billion the Pentagon is diverting from military construction projects. Federal judges in Texas and California have found the administration’s actions unlawful, but the California judge declined to block Trump from spending the money while the government appealed. The Texas judge did block the administration from spending the money, but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted that prohibition on Jan. 8. The 5th Circuit’s action left no court orders blocking the spending. The next day, the Sierra Club, which filed the California lawsuit, asked the 9th Circuit for an emergency order blocking the government from spending the $3.6 billion. The border wall is one of Trump’s signature issues. He claimed Mexico would pay for it, but that has not happened. 

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FACE MASKS from 11 like two or three boxes per person,” said Varumporn Krataitohg, an employee of the NanBhesaj drugstore in central Bangkok. The outbreak began before the Lunar New Year, when tens of thousands of Chinese tourists visit Thailand, Japan and other parts of Asia. Demand has risen by 80% starting with this past weekend’s Lunar New Year, said Varumporn. “Now we are out of disinfectant gel for hands. The maker just sent just new lots this morning and by noon we were sold out,” she said. “People keep coming and asking for these products.” Japanese often wear surgical masks to protect against colds, flu or hay fever. Shelves of some stores were scooped bare as Japanese health officials confirmed four cases of the virus. Christine Yuuki, a 25-year-old tourist from Hefei, west of Nanjing, was shopping in Tokyo for masks for friends and family back in China. “In China, masks are very expensive,” she said, adding that one little pack of masks costs more than 100 yuan ($14). “They are cheaper here and easier to buy.” Iris Ohyama, a major maker of household goods and home appliances, said its mask sales last week had tripled from week before. It has asked some workers at one of its two factories in China to cut short their 10-day Lunar New Year holiday and get back to work,

Nguyen says the program could be paid for through a new tax on employers that pay people salaries in excess of $1 million per year. The tax would be paid by the companies themselves, not by the employees, he said. Under Nguyen’s bill, people who receive the $500 benefit would still be eligible for other income-based programs, such as food stamps and the state’s housing and essential needs program.

it said. Stocks of masks ran out quickly at outlets of South Korea’s biggest 24-hour convenience store, CU, at airports, bus terminals and other transportation hubs. Sales of soap, hand sanitizers and mouthwash more than doubled, said CU’s parent company, BGF Retail. Overall, though, there were no immediate signs of major shortages in South Korea, which has reported four cases of the illness. In Taiwan, likewise, the government said that there were enough masks and that current daily production capacity of 1.88 million face masks could be boosted to 2.44 million to meet any spike in demand. Seven cases of the virus have been confirmed on the island, which has imposed a month-long ban on exports of two types of surgical masks to ensure they’ll be available. Everyday use of surgical masks, once mainly confined to Japan and parts of China affected by major dust storms or smog, has expanded in recent years, mainly because of worsening air pollution. In the Philippines, which has reported no cases of the virus, the recent eruptions of the Taal volcano have prompted many to wear masks to protect against ash. Cambodia registered its first new virus case on Jan. 27 and launched a campaign to give away 1 million masks to people entering the country at Poipet, on its border with Thailand.

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Indonesia, Asia’s third most populous country after China and India, has not confirmed any cases of the virus. At the request of its embassy, it’s sending 10,000 masks to China for distribution to Indonesians living there, said Agus Wibowo, a spokesman for the Health Ministry. In Bangkok, consumers are faced with choosing between N95 masks, which many residents have worn during recent weeks of heavy air pollution, or plain surgical masks that can help block transmission of the virus and are more breathable. Thailand, a favorite Chinese vacation destination, has 14 confirmed cases of the illness, the highest national total outside China. While some stores were temporarily sold out, especially in places frequented by Chinese tourists, there’s no absolute shortage of masks, said Prayote Pensut, the deputy director general of the Thai Commerce Ministry’s Internal Trade Department. Whether or not masks do much to prevent the virus from spreading, they seem to reassure many. Wuhan is “pretty much contained,” said Ian Zhao, a 30-year-old engineer from Shenzhen who was visiting Bangkok’s ornate Grand Palace. So, “you just don’t worry about it too much, wash your hands, put on masks, just keep your personal hygiene every day. And it’s mostly fine.” 

KUDERER from 3 Kuderer apologized for her remark in her opening statement to the Senate Housing and Affordability Committee on Jan. 20. “I will certainly endeavor to be more mindful. In all the confusion that was happening on Friday —calling of witnesses—it was an attempt to be lighthearted but sometimes, we don’t say things the way we really intend them to be.” In a Jan. 20 letter to the Office of the Secretary of Senate and Office of Senate Counsel, the two organizations are demanding an official apology from Kuderer to the Chinese American community. Andy McVicar, a senior Senate Democratic communications specialist, said in an email that Kuderer has spoken with an investigator and plans to let the apology she made in committee stand as her statement on the incident. “We will follow through and make sure that proper investigations and actions will be taken,” Yang said in an email. “Our community deserves to be treated respectfully.” 

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