Author’s Note: This is the second piece in a two-part on envisioning pan-Asian and Pacific Islander solidarity. A map representing the continent of Asia. With so many national, cultural, and religious ...

When he was in second grade, my son observed to me that Asia was a “fake continent.” Having considered myself an Asian all my adult life, I was taken aback that day as we studied an atlas together.

Many authors have suggested that some Indian continental lithosphere has subducted, but owing to its buoyancy has underplated the Asian continent 4,5. More recently, tomographic imaging of the mantle ...