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Nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have been documented since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. (Photo/iStock)
Jonathan Wang has spent all year helping students emotionally grapple with the racist incidents targeting Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the pandemic. The recent killing of eight people, including six Asian women, outside Atlanta only heightened the stress many Asian Americans feel, Wang said, including those at USC.
The deaths are just the latest and most violent examples of what many have experienced all year the feeling that COVID-19 has exacerbated their feelings of being unwelcomed, different and outsiders, added Wang, director of Asian Pacific American Student Services, or APASS, at USC.
April 16, 2021
Nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have been documented since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. (Photo/iStock)
Jonathan Wang has spent all year helping students emotionally grapple with the racist incidents targeting Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the pandemic. The recent killing of eight people, including six Asian women, outside Atlanta only heightened the stress many Asian Americans feel, Wang said, including those at USC.
The deaths are just the latest and most violent examples of what many have experienced all year the feeling that COVID-19 has exacerbated their feelings of being unwelcomed, different and outsiders, added Wang, director of Asian Pacific American Student Services, or APASS, at USC.
The Chinese government has spent billions of dollars in Africa on public diplomacy initiatives that are intended to improve the country’s image. Central to that strategy is the growing network of Confucius Institutes (CIs) spread across the continent that are designed to introduce Chinese language and culture to the African masses. Today, there are over 40 CIs in Africa but, despite their good intentions, these institutes attract significant controversy.
Goethe University post-doctoral research fellow Falk Hartig is an expert on CIs and the broader role they play in China’s cultural diplomacy overseas. Hartig joins Eric and Cobus to discuss whether cultural diplomacy is actually effective, particularly in China’s case.