Since the early history of the United States, America has been engaged in Asia and home to Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. The arc of the United States’ history is filled with legacies of both rising opportunity for and deepening discrimination toward AAPI communities that often intersected with shifting tides in U.S. foreign policy toward Asia. As the United States emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic—and the spike in AAPI hate crimes that came with it—and adopts a more assertive foreign policy towards China, how can the U.S. foreign policy community further counter AAPI hate and discrimination?

Please join CSIS to commemorate AAPI Heritage Month with a keynote address by Ambassador Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative and Co-Chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI), and a panel discussion exploring ways to counter AAPI hate and discrimination and its intersections with U.S. foreign policy in Asia.

This event, hosted by the Center’s Asia Program, Diversity and Leadership in International Affairs (DLIA) Project, and the staff-led Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Employee Resource Group (ERG), builds on an event held in 2021, “Countering Asian and Asian American Discrimination as a Dimension of Foreign Policy.”

A networking reception for in-person guests will follow the expert panel.