One in four young Asian Americans targeted by racial discrimination and bullying over last year

Dragon TV: It is reported that the US Department of Justice has recently launched a review of the China Initiative amid concerns that it may fuel anti-Asian rhetoric and acts. Separately, the ROK’s foreign ministry said that Chung Byung-Hwa, the country’s Consul General in New York, will meet with government officials of the New York City to request that the city government make proactive efforts to prevent the recurrence of anti-Asian hate crimes. Do you have any comment? Wang Wenbin: Both the so-called China Initiative and the rampant anti-Asian acts and words in the US boil down to its systemic racial discrimination and reflect the entrenched social problem in the US. Statistics show that anti-Asian hate crimes rose 76 percent in 2020. A quarter of young Americans of Asian descent were targeted by racial discrimination and bullying over the last year. These numbers are shocking and present a cause for widespread concern in many Asian countries and the wider international community. The US sho