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Monthly Review | China and the American Lake

National Security Agency director Robert O’Brien, 2020 U.S. fantasies of expansion, commercial dominion, and military prowess have long hinged on a premise of Pacific exceptionalism. Couched in the millenarian language of manifest destiny, the Pacific region and its multitudinous ecosystems, cultures, peoples, and nations have been vacated in favor of an aqua nullius that frames the region as an empty space designated for U.S. possession by divine providence. This manufactured Pacific idea what David Palumbo-Liu describes as a “repository of the American imaginary” has borne many names. 3 Amid the nineteenth-century annexation of Hawai‘i and the colonization of the Philippines, politician Whitelaw Reid heralded the ultimate conversion of the Pacific into an “American Lake.”

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What can the transcontinental railroad teach us about anti-Asian racism?

What can the transcontinental railroad teach us about anti-Asian racism? Chinese immigrants helped achieve ‘one of the greatest engineering feats in U.S. history.’ But their sacrifices are seldom remembered. Train tracks run through Loray, Nevada. The transcontinental railroad extended through five states and connected America’s coasts.Photograph by Philip Cheung ByRay Rogers Email Every May, tourists gather in Promontory Summit, Utah, to watch two trains meet nose to nose on tracks first laid more than 150 years ago. The Central Pacific Railroad’s Jupiter, painted blue with red and gold accents, whistles as steam billows against a clear sky and rolling hills. Facing it, the Union Pacific Railroad’s red-and-gold 119, its bell swinging, slows to a stop.

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