President Trump was photographed reading from notes at a press briefing in which the word 'corona' was replaced with 'Chinese' to described COVID-19.
of the term, which critics say will inflame anti-Asian sentiment aimed at Asian Americans and Asian American-owned businesses here in the U.S.
John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, told NBC Asian America that Trump's use of the term could have a dangerous impact. "I absolutely think that words used by him matter," he said."Certainly use of this term by him and others even in the last couple of weeks have led to a noticeable incline in hate incidents that we are seeing. I do think that there is a correlation."Administration officials have defended the term by pointing out that the Chinese government has in recent weeks
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