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The Anti-Chinese Wall
When America built a wall against the Chinese, irony wrote the caption
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When America built a wall against the Chinese, irony wrote the caption
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Chopsticks at a banquet sealed a handshake across the Pacific
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Pacific Ties is a digital archive dedicated to the stories that bind China and the United States across the Pacific — stories of ambition, conflict, survival, and the unbreakable thread of connection that runs through centuries of shared history.
From the first merchant ships to the handshake across the Pacific, every wave carried a story. We bring them back to light.