China, is a prime example of a nation that is going to have to deal with this in the very near future. Steve Weisman, like Klein, recognized that problems existed in media coverage of Asians. He noted that foreign coverage of Asian countries is particularly problematic and expressed his abhorrence for past characterizations of nonwhite countries cast within a cold war mold. But Weisman introduced an optimistic perspective. Since the end of the cold war, changing social conditions have forced the media to abandon the vilification of nonwhites.
Foreign coverage is now more inclusive of social problems.
Weisman charged the media with the task of reinventing foreign news coverage to suit current global conditions more appropriately. Veena Merchant and T. T. Nhu have very different frames of reference. Both write for papers with relatively small, specialized constituencies which they both maintain emerged as a result of the marginalization of their issues. Merchant works on a publication devoted entirely to South Asian Americans. Nhu's column for the San Jose Mercury News is about a midsize town's Asian population.