As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, it confronts a new world order dominated by its relationship with China. In this wide-ranging series, we examine the pressure points and possibilities in those ties, from hard tech to soft power. Here, Lucy Quaggin looks at how Gen Z Chinese-Americans are navigating identity amid shifting US-China tensions.As a high school student on New York City’s Upper East Side, Chinese-American Hannah Liu would take the subway downtown on Sundays to volunteer and visit Chinatown.Those weekly trips became a space to embrace her Chinese identity, before culturally “code-switching” on her way back home.
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As the US turns 250, young Asian-Americans weigh identity and China
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, it confronts a new world order dominated by its relationship with China. In this wide-ranging series, we examine the pressure points and possibilities in those ties, from hard tech to soft power. Here, Lucy Quaggin looks at how Gen Z
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