Because of the escalation of hate crimes against them

The Chinese avoid traveling to the United States

  • Hate and discrimination against Asians escalated in America after "Covid-19".

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  • A white man killed 8 women in a massage parlour in America.

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Hate crimes against Asians are on the rise in America, up 339% last year compared to 2020, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

As early as March 2020, the FBI released a report predicting an "increase" in hate crimes against Asian Americans, due to the "Covid-19" pandemic, which some claim originated in an Asian country, which has fueled the fire, and resulted in language Incendiary and racist used by irresponsible politicians, repeated on social media and through geopolitical tensions with China.

Chinese national, Canon Yu, from Shantou City, Guangdong Province, has in the past traveled the world to promote her company's food.

But it has not left China since early 2020 and is making sales calls online, instead of traveling to Thailand, Germany, Morocco, and other places due to the spread of the “Covid-19” epidemic, and since most countries reopened their borders, travelers resumed their trips to previous levels Before COVID-19, Yu wants to travel again, but has major reservations about visiting the United States.

“Americans view people discriminatory, not only for Chinese, but for blacks as well,” says Yu, who says she spoke to friends who had visited the US who claimed they were detained and searched by customs officials before they were allowed to leave the airport.

Yu is one of the growing community of Chinese travelers, who believes that discrimination against Asians in the United States has made them afraid to visit the country one day.

This month, research firm Morning Consult published a study on the trend, in which its findings, based on a survey of 1,000 adults, showed that “a significant number of Chinese have little or no interest in traveling to the United States.” Not at all,” with violence and discrimination against Asians cited as factors.

According to Moring Consult data, 22% of Chinese respondents are "not at all interested" in visiting the United States, while another 23% say they are "not interested at all".

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Among the survey respondents, 57% cited violent crimes as the main reason for not wanting to go to the US, 52% cited terrorism as the reason, 36% cited petty crime as a reason not to visit, and 44% said they were concerned about bias The locals against China.

The mass shootings in the US are another concern, with those who witnessed, read or heard about the school shooting in Ovaldi, Texas earlier this year, citing violent crime as a reason not to travel to the US.

Instead, some Chinese travelers are now looking for other places, including destinations in Europe.

Moring Consult geopolitical risk analyst Scott Moskovitz says China's state-controlled media has played a role in promoting anti-Chinese violence in the US in order to make its citizens less interested in going there.

"It is a strategically organized ecosystem that exaggerates negative foreign news," he adds.

escalation of harassment

Harassment against Asians has escalated worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly as a result of misinformation, or misplaced aggression, about the origins of the pandemic.

Perhaps the most hateful crimes against Asians in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic are the Atlanta spa murders, in which eight women were murdered in three different massage parlors by Robert Aaron Long, a white man.

Six of the eight victims were Asian, and he was charged with hate crimes in addition to the murders.

Last year, New York Congresswoman Grace Meng introduced the COVID-19 hate crimes bill, which President Joe Biden signed into law.

Ming is of Taiwanese descent, representing parts of Queens, an ethnically diverse area of ​​New York City that is home to many Asian Americans.

These incidents, which range from street harassment to physical violence, are widely covered outside the United States, including China.

• Hate crimes against Asians are on the rise in America, rising 339% last year compared to 2020, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.


• Americans view people discriminatory, not only for Chinese, but for black people as well.

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