Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secret role shows, the lure of easy foreign money is bipartisan. Young's business depends in large part on Western access to Chinese markets and a secure Taiwan, objectives pushed by Republicans and the think tank he backed. That agenda, the Young case shows, has been successfully promoted by Asian interests who contributed big money to both major parties...
...Young joined the Taiwan navy as a supply officer, studied engineering in England and returned to Taipei, where he started an aerospace consulting firm. He later moved to Hong Kong, where he keeps a picture of himself with Ronald Reagan hanging on his office wall. Young served as the Asian agent for several aviation companies, including Pratt & Whitney and, more informally, British Aerospace. Over the years he has had a financial interest in preserving American trade links to China, the world's largest customer of commercial aircraft, and in maintaining a militarily strong Taiwan. In 1992 Taiwan bought...
...extremely private by the standards of Hong Kong tycoons. He has an office in Taipei and sits on the board of an aerospace company close to the ruling Nationalist government. He is known as "the man to see" if you want to get a hearing in Asian aerospace circles. Little else about him is publicly available--at least not yet. Last Friday, Haley Barbour received a new subpoena, this one asking for all records relating to the National Policy Forum. With Washington's investigations widening to include Republican backers, the well-guarded anonymity of Ambrous Tung Young may be coming...
...fourth Thai and one-fourth Chinese roots with a precision that a racial-classifications expert under South African apartheid would admire. He said that when he was asked to check a box for racial background, he couldn't settle on just one. "I checked off 'African American' and 'Asian.' Those are the two I was raised under, and the only two I know...
...fearful apparently never stopped to consider that Woods was not turning his back on any part of his identity but instead was embracing every aspect of it. As he put it, "I'm just who I am, whoever you see in front of you"--and that includes his Asian side. "The influence of Tiger's mother Kultida in his life is very important," declares a family friend. "He goes to the temple with her occasionally. She's a devout Buddhist. He wears a family heirloom Buddha around his neck. He's a hybrid of a lot of things, and that...