Background Briefing: March 21, 2021
Separating Asian Americans From Worsening U.S.-China Relations
We begin with the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska between the Biden administration’s top officials and their Chinese counterparts in which Secretary of State Blinken faced a 16 minute tirade of “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy from the head of China’s Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi and speak with Mae Ngai, Professor of History and the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. The author of The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America and The Chinese Question, she joins us to discuss the need to separate growing tensions in U.S. – China relations from how Asian Americans are treated in this country as racist hate crimes against Asian American communities are on the rise following Trump’s demonization of Asians linking them to the Covid pandemic as opposed to blaming the Communist Party government in China.
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