TikTok's China ties fuel anxiety among Asian Americans and congressional scrutiny.

Asian Americans are increasingly anxious about hate crimes as both political parties amplify fears about China and its threat to US economic and national security. The rhetoric surrounding China has shifted from blatant name-calling to the more clinical vocabulary of national security, allowing an undercurrent of xenophobia to lurk beneath the respectable veneer of geopolitics. Civil rights leaders warn that policymakers’ choice to use inflammatory speech endangers countless innocent Americans by association and creates conditions for new discriminatory policies at home and the potential for even more anti-Asian violence.