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President Trump announced in the evening of Tuesday, April 7th, that a ceasefire proposed by Pakistan had been agreed to by the US and Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has also confirmed that Iran had agreed to the deal. The news came just hours before President Trump’s deadline for a deal with Iran. If…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. In a time when China is increasingly at odds with the Western world, it may be surprising to learn that much of its younger generation holds quite positive views towards China. For example, one needs to look no further than the “chinamaxxing” trend, a showcase of a growing…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. -The war on Iran is estimated to have so far cost 3.7 billion dollars in its first 100 hours – that is 90 million dollars a day. This is owed to the use of massive amounts of munitions, stealth bombers, and advanced weapons systems, Washington-based think tank the…
-American stealth bombers will soon land in UK bases, The Telegraph reports. While the UK had initially denied American requests to carry out strikes from its bases, on Sunday, it relented and would allow use for “specific and limited defensive purposes.” US troops pose with a B-2 stealth bomber – a model that may soon…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. Day 5, March 4 -An American torpedo fired from a submarine hits an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims. While Hesgeth stated that the ship had been sunk on Tuesday and that it “died a…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. -The IDF strikes a building in Tehran where the 88-member Assembly of Experts was meeting to choose Iran’s next supreme leader. No injuries or death have been reported yet, but Iranian media stated that the building was “flattened.” -The US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is hit by…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. Day One, February 28 – 1:15 am ET: US Central Command announces via X (formerly Twitter) that American forces, alongside Israeli ones, are launching Operation Epic Fury with “large-scale coordinated strike campaign against Iranian military and regime targets.” A missile launching from a U.S. vessel in the Middle…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. The basis of the cyberpunk literary genre is oppressive megacorporations and advanced yet dystopian cities. A subgenre of science fiction that first emerged in the 1970s, exemplified by Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner (1982) marked the genre’s first breakthrough. An iconic hit,…
This article was written by Melinda Liu. Editor’s Note: This article was written during the October-November 2025 government shutdown, but food security among Asian-Americans is such an underrepresented yet critical topic. It’s October 1st, 2025, at midnight. The U.S. government has entered a shutdown because Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress are locked in a…
The AAPI Angle 