Podcasts Government NCUSCR Events Confronting Anti-Asian Racism: Anti-China Foreign Policy and Legislative Change

Confronting Anti-Asian Racism: Anti-China Foreign Policy and Legislative Change

Published: April 20, 2021, 4:45 p.m.

While violence toward Asian Americans has always existed in the United States, the community\u202fhas faced racist violence\u202fand hate\u202fcrimes\u202fat a much higher rate over the last year. Between March 2020 and February 2021, Stop AAPI Hate reported 3,795 hate incidents\u202fnationwide. Experts argue this phenomenon has been\u202ffueled by Sinophobia,\u202fanti-China foreign policy, and xenophobic political rhetoric\u202funleashed during the Covid-19 pandemic. On April\u202f12, 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