Biden, China’s Xi Jinping Hold First Call in Months
Optimism that US and China could find ways to improve their relationship and work together on issues of global concern, including the Covid 19 pandemic.
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Coming to America, Asian Migration
20 million people of Asian ancestry now live in the U.S.
Call It What It Is – Racism Against Asian Americans
The history of racism against Asian Americans and how the Covid-19 pandemic and political rhetoric resurfaced racist attitude towards Asian Americans.
One-third of Asian Americans fear threats, physical attacks and most say violence against them is rising
One-third of Asian Americans fear the rising of threats, physical attacks and violence against them.
Thousands protest violence against Asian Americans during National Day of Action protests
Violent attacks on Asian Americans is representative of the significant anti-Asian rhetoric that has occurred over the past year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America
Too often, attention to nonwhite groups is only as pressing as the injuries that they have suffered.
For Asian Americans, Atlanta Spa Shootings Heighten Worries
A Pew Research Center survey of 9,654 U.S. adults last June found that roughly 31% of Asian adults said they had been the subject of slurs or jokes.
8 People Killed in Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings
An unspeakable tragedy” for both the victims’ families and an Asian-American community that has been reeling from high levels of racist attacks since early 2020.
STOP AAPI HATE NATIONAL REPORT
The number of hate incidents reported represents only a fraction of the number of hate incidents that actually occured!
America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens
The US history has had a systemic, official and unofficial, exclusion for the Chinese, and this pandemic brought the debate back up again.