Confronting Anti-Asian Racism: Anti-China Foreign Policy and Legislative Change
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English - April 20, 2021 16:45 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB - ★★★★ - 18 ratingsGovernment Business Non-Profit china fdi military policy taiwan trump uschina foreign foreignpolicy history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
While violence toward Asian Americans has always existed in the United States, the community has faced racist violence and hate crimes at a much higher rate over the last year. Between March 2020 and February 2021, Stop AAPI Hate reported 3,795 hate incidents nationwide. Experts argue this phenomenon has been fueled by Sinophobia, anti-China foreign policy, and xenophobic political rhetoric unleashed during the Covid-19 pandemic. On April 12, 2021, the National Committee held a virtual two-part program in which Jessica J. Lee and Ian Shin discussed the impact of anti-China political rhetoric on the current domestic U.S. climate, and Congresswoman Judy Chu addressed anti-Asian racism through legislative change. Learn more about anti-Asian racism in the United States, and what you can do to help: https://www.ncuscr.org/anti-racism