Amid escalating US-China tensions, immigration crackdowns, and Trump’s targeting of undocumented Chinese immigrants, Chinese Americans face renewed racism threats.
As tensions between China and the United States increase due to trade disputes and geopolitics, the latest crackdown on undocumented immigrants has begun, and President-elect Trump has said that Chinese immigrants of working age will be the first to be deported, Chinese Americans may face a new round of racist threats for various reasons. During Trump’s first term, he called the new coronavirus the “Chinese virus”, hate crimes against Asian Americans surged during the epidemic, and the racially discriminatory “China Plan” has put Chinese scholars under suspicion. According to a special article in Forbes, David J. Firestein, chairman and CEO of the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, said at a summit organized by the China Institute in America last month that the trend of hostility against Chinese Americans has reappeared, Americans have an overwhelmingly negative view of China, and political candidates and current officials can portray themselves as hardliners by expressing hostile rhetoric against China. The New York 100 found that about two-thirds of Chinese Americans experience at least one form of discrimination per month on average.
Source: Forbes