Xiaochen Su
Writer at Freelance
a naturalized Chinese-American, an avid world traveler, as well as a Yale, LSE, and UTokyo graduate. Seeking new life experiences while working in education!
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3 weeks ago |
asiasentinel.com | Xiaochen Su
By: Xiaochen SuChinese graduate students pose at ColumbiaAs a college admissions consultant helping high school students across the world increase their chances of gaining acceptance into top US universities, I have a front-row seat in witnessing the changing perception of America and its educational system under the Trump administration. It is a rapidl…
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1 month ago |
asiatimes.com | Xiaochen Su
The face of Chinese migration in Japan is changing. Last month, the business magazine Toyo Keizai profiled the phenomenon of Chinese children enrolling in some of Tokyo’s top elementary schools. The article series zoomed in on Tokyo’s Bunkyo-ku, home to the University of Tokyo as well as some of the capital’s best public schools, noting that since 2019, where the number of non-Japanese children living in the neighborhood has more than doubled.
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2 months ago |
johnmenadue.com | Xiaochen Su
Millions of Myanmar refugees could be next if Junta fallsAlmost as soon as Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane for the one-way journey to Moscow, European governments began folding up the welcome mats for Syrian refugees. On December 8, the Russian foreign ministry announced that Assad had been given asylum in the country. A day later, Germany and Austria froze more than 50,000 asylum applications by Syrian refugees.
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2 months ago |
brandinginasia.com | Xiaochen Su
Consider this impressive set of numbers: A USD 10 billion valuation, a 43% jump on the first day of its public listing, and the world’s largest fast food chain with 45,000 outlets. These are some of the superlatives that describe Mixue Group, a Chinese F&B brand that sells soft-serve ice cream and cold teas in plastic cups that most people outside China have never heard of, much less purchased from.
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2 months ago |
asiasentinel.com | Xiaochen Su
By: Xiaochen SuUS President Trump’s ongoing cuts to foreign assistance, headlined by a shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), open a golden opportunity for Asian nations to come into their own in providing humanitarian aid to some of the most aid-dependent parts of the world, particularly in Africa. It can p…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
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