He shattered stereotypes about Chinese-Americans in the process.
The jot of non-Chinese come from all over the world: Filipinos mainly, plus Americans, Britons, Canadians, Indonesians, Thais, Indians, Japanese, Australians and Malaysians.
"If at the end of the day people can tell the difference between Korean-Americans and Chinese-Americans, I consider that a major victory, " says Hong.
Today Mr Fong is a state assemblyman representing Silicon Valley, a place teeming with successful Chinese-Americans such as the co-founders of YouTube and Yahoo!
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But Mr Sarkozy and the British worked on a clever UN resolution that got the Americans on-side and neutralised the opposition of the Chinese and the Russians.
For the very first time Americans can invest in yuan by purchasing securities denominated in the hard-to-buy Chinese currency.
It's also a big opportunity for the Americans, South African, Australians and Chinese - who have been invited to come over - to test themselves in international competition.
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Tudor Jones, incidentally, believes this action by Americans would end up benefiting the Chinese government in the long-run from potentially rampant inflation and helping them transition faster to a domestically-driven (rather than export-driven) economy that is more sustainable.
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Americans will recognize the building as looking like a stack of Chinese take-out boxes.
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When Coca-Cola, for instance, planned to take over a local Chinese soft drinks company a few years ago, Chinese hackers were discovered to have accessed top-secret memos on how much the Americans were willing to pay.
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Nowadays, studies show that an important number of young Americans wish to study in the Asia-Pacific region and to learn Chinese, Korean and Japanese so as to be prepared to run businesses in this promising region.
And since the 19th century, the Hawaiian "people" included many native-born and naturalized subjects who were Americans, Chinese, Samoans, etc.
The latest target demographic is Asian-Americans, with MTV Desi (for Indian-Americans), MTV Chi (for Chinese-Americans) and MTV K (for Korean Americans) all appearing during the past year.
In December, almost 3, 000 Americans visited -- the largest group by nationality, ahead even of the French and Chinese.
To put it plainly, the Chinese manufacture for us the shoes, t-shirts and socks that we could only manufacture stateside at a profit if Americans were willing to work for next to nothing.
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