Racism Against Chinese Australians Is Being Made Worse by Anti-China Election Rhetoric

Politics can be cutthroat, but Australian businessman Jason Yat-sen Li wasn't expecting to have his loyalty to his country questioned when he ran for a seat in the New South Wales legislative assembly in a mid-February by-election.

His sister-in-law and several others told him that they had been approached at polling stations by voters bandying rumors. “They’d say, ‘Jason is associated with the Chinese Communist Party,’ and things like that,” he tells TIME.