For perhaps another generation, an optimistic forecast, the Jewish community is thus in a position where it will be able to divide and conquer and enter into selective coalitions that support our agendas. But the day will surely come when an effective Asian-American alliance will actually bring Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Koreans, Vietnamese, and the rest closer together. And the enormously complex and as yet significantly divided Latinos will also eventually achieve a more effective political federation. The fact is that the term "Asian American" has only recently come into common parlance among younger Asians (it is still rejected by older folks), while "Latinos" or "Hispanics" often do not think of themselves as part of a multinational ethnic bloc but primarily as Mexicans, Cubans, or Puerto Ricans.

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https://cis.org/Report/Jewish-Stake-Americas-Changing-Demography

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The author is Jewish. And was National Affairs Director at the American Jewish Committee (AJC). He is speaking frankly about the positioning of the Jewish community with regard to emerging minority communities. This is a very clear admission that the Asian community becomes a force to be reckoned with IF we can transcend our differences, and form loyalties first to one another, a kind of cohesion among Asian-Americans, that if formed, would be a first.

You begin to see why Pan-Asianism is so important. How it prevents division and conquer. How it strengthens the community to act as one force.

You see the opposite of this notion in this section:

This is also true of the many new immigrants from rival sides in the ongoing Balkan wars, as it is for the growing south Asian population from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. They have miles and miles to go before they overcome historical hatreds, put aside current enmities and forgive recent enormities, especially Pakistani brutality in the nascent Bangladesh. Queens is no melting pot!

You also see why the sub frowns on borrowing homeland resentments into our community. They serve no purpose.

For every white person (or misguided Asian) trying to tell us the idea of "Asian" is an artificial construct, created by the West, just realize that is an attempt to divide us and reduce our solidarity as a group. It is a typical white tactic to seem sympathetic -- "but you are so unique in being Korean, in being Vietnamese etc. - don't "succumb" to the Western notion that you are all just blandly "Asian" ". And then there are useful idiots in the Asian community itself who mindlessly repeat these talking points not realizing unity is our strength (and defense against D & C).

Eastern cultural values and the similarity with which we are treated in the West is reason enough for true solidarity.

The sub is guided the way it is for a reason. It will lead us to better outcomes than a noob's hot take that "Pan-Asianism can't work".