Shanghai, China – June 11, 2023 – BASF showcases its low-carbon concepts, innovative technologies and solutions along the value chain at the first Shanghai International Carbon Neutrality Expo in Technologies, Products and Achievements (Carbon Expo), empowering green development of various sectors in China.
"Accounting for half of the global chemical market, China is a strategic market and growth engine for BASF," said Dr. Jeffrey Lou, President and Chairman of BASF in Greater China. "We are ple...

Wenjun Zheng, a second-year UIC Architecture student, returned to the United States in Fall 2021 after more than a year of online instruction in China.

Zheng said he preferred online learning as opposed to in-person or hybrid classes.

“That way, I can get an internship and absorb more experiences from it when I am having the online classes,” Zheng said. “As an international student, I cannot work off-campus without complicated procedures in the U.S.”

According to Foreign Academic Students, an F-1 nonimmigrant student can only begin the internship after the designated school official (DSO) has authorized Curricular Practical Training (CPT) on the student’s Form I-20, Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status.

“Plus, if I am allowed to take online classes in a country with fewer cases,” Zheng said. “I would definitely do it for my health and safety.”

Based on the data from Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard, as of March 6, the United States ranks third in the world in the COVID-19 cases over the past 28 days, and ranks first in the deaths of both total and the past 28 days. Cook County ranks fourth among all counties in the country.

Zheng and many other students returned to a much different campus for spring semester 2022. On Dec. 21, UIC had announced that Spring 2022 would start with two weeks of online instruction, since the Omicron variant led to a rapid rise in positive COVID-19 cases across Illinois and the nation.

Chicago had always been one of the oldest and largest cities that Asian immigrants lived in since the 1870s. Many Asians were born and raised in the city just like many other ethnic families.

According to World Population Review, there are 179,530 Asian Americans living in the city. Asian Americans make up 6.63% of the total population of Chicago.

Zuviriya Anarwala, a senior at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was born in India, and came to America when she was ten years old in the year of 2009.

“I think Chicago is really diverse so that makes it really easy,” Anarwala said. “It’s like your own place where you don’t have to be American or Asian. You can find your own balance. You can find both communities.”

According to the Chinese Exclusion Exclusion Act signed in 1882, Asian Americans seem to also never get to be treated equally as other ethnicities or to be seen as true “Americans”.

A series of studies were conducted and found that hate crimes targeting the Asian American community have reached some unprecedented levels.

Renata Wang, a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Chicago, boarded a plane to her home country of China two years ago and decided to continue her academic goals through online courses.
“If it doesn’t affect my graduation, I will return to America as late as possible.” she said. “You know, because America has become very dangerous whether in terms of health or personal safety.”
Wang was not the only minority s...