How being “hard on China” is dividing Asian-Americans

Shashank Rao
5 min readNov 5, 2020

As we anxiously await the results of the election, I wanted to highlight something I’ve been seeing on my social media over the last few weeks. Various Asian-American groups have been discussed as being important players in certain local elections and even tipping the scales for Trump and Biden. Whether it’s Hmong-Americans in Minnesota or South-Asian Americans in Texas, there’s a been a notable uptick in the involvement and electoral impact of Asian-American voters since 2016. Chinese-Americans in particular have mobilized against Trump’s rhetoric on COVID-19…

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Shashank Rao

Aspiring Hindu theologian and polyglot-in-progress. UChicago MDiv Class of 2024.