Beijing''s ambassador urges Chinese-Americans to help overcome ''serious difficulties'' in two countries'' relationship The Chinese ambassador to the US has called on Chinese-Americans to help to improve US-China relations, which he said were "going through serious difficulties". Speaking at a reception hosted by the Committee of 100, a group of elite Chinese-Americans in business, government, academia and the arts, Qin Gang also pledged support to combat anti-Asian hate. The comments by Qin came as the US is celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, and as hate crimes targeting Asian-American communities have surged sharply, partly driven by anti-China political rhetoric and misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. According to a recent poll by the non-profit Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change and The Asian American Foundation, at least 21 per cent of US adults now say Asian-Americans are at least partly responsible for Covid-19, up from 11 per cent in 2021. Meanwhile 33 per cent believed that "Asian-Americans are more loyal to their country of origin than to the United States" - up from 20 per cent last year. Qin admitted that bilateral relations between China and the US faced serious difficulties, but said Chinese-Americans could play a role because "the China-US relationship concerns not only the future of the world, but also the welfare of Chinese-Americans", according to a transcript published by the Chinese embassy on Saturday. "China is regarded as the most serious competitor and even ''national security threat No 1'' of the US. With various kinds of misunderstandings, misperceptions and misjudgments going on, the risks of confrontation and conflict are on the rise," he said. A protest against anti-Asian hate crimes in New York last year. Photo: Xinhua alt=A protest against anti-Asian hate crimes in New York last year. Photo: Xinhua> "Just as an old Chinese saying goes, ''No egg stays unbroken when the nest is overturned''. Chinese-Americans are US citizens with natural ties to China," Qin continued. "I hope that you can help build China-US friendship, advance exchanges and cooperation, bridge differences and ease confrontation. Ultimately, Chinese-Americans can only prosper when the China-US relationship enjoys sound and stable development." Qin''s audience included Gary Locke, a former US ambassador to China and chairman of the Committee of 100, and Huang Zhengyu, a prominent businessman and former White House Fellow. Qin said that amid the rise of pandemic-fuelled racism, Asian-American communities should be united, to "get more engaged in politics, get more integrated into American society, and better protect your legitimate rights and interests", adding that the Chinese embassy would also work with Chinese-American communities to stop anti-Asian hate. Americans of Asian origin, who make up 7 per cent of the US population, are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the US but are increasingly targeted by anti-Asian hate crimes, which were up by 339 per cent in 2021 compared with the year before, according to a study by the California State University Santa Barbara''s Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism in February. Fears peaked in March last year after eight people, six of them Asian women, were killed in a mass shooting in a spa in the Atlanta area. In March, hundreds of people lined up for pepper spray in Manhattan''s Chinatown following the death of Michelle Alyssa Go, a 40-year-old Asian-American woman who was pushed into the path of an oncoming subway train. This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the most authoritative voice reporting on China and Asia for more than a century. For more SCMP stories, please explore the SCMP app or visit the SCMP''s Facebook and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2022 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2022. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. yamasaki27 发表于 2022-05-08 16:36
Beijing''s ambassador urges Chinese-Americans to help overcome ''serious difficulties'' in two countries'' relationship
The Chinese ambassador to the US has called on Chinese-Americans to help to improve US-China relations, which he said were "going through serious difficulties". Speaking at a reception hosted by the Committee of 100, a group of elite Chinese-Americans in business, government, academia and the arts, Qin Gang also pledged support to combat anti-Asian hate. The comments by Qin came as the US is celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, and as hate crimes targeting Asian-American communities have surged sharply, partly driven by anti-China political rhetoric and misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic.
Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. According to a recent poll by the non-profit Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change and The Asian American Foundation, at least 21 per cent of US adults now say Asian-Americans are at least partly responsible for Covid-19, up from 11 per cent in 2021. Meanwhile 33 per cent believed that "Asian-Americans are more loyal to their country of origin than to the United States" - up from 20 per cent last year. Qin admitted that bilateral relations between China and the US faced serious difficulties, but said Chinese-Americans could play a role because "the China-US relationship concerns not only the future of the world, but also the welfare of Chinese-Americans", according to a transcript published by the Chinese embassy on Saturday. "China is regarded as the most serious competitor and even ''national security threat No 1'' of the US. With various kinds of misunderstandings, misperceptions and misjudgments going on, the risks of confrontation and conflict are on the rise," he said.
fu*k him! Go to hell.
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