“There is a direct correlation when the president and other elected officials talk about this issue,” said Cynthia Choi, executive director for CAA, on the KALW radio show “Your Call” with host Rose Aguilar. “The general public is not immune to conspiracy theories or efforts to deflect and blame and again it’s really hard to reel back this misinformation and efforts to try to pinpoint China or the Chinese government or its people and we know that there’s a conflation with that Asians and immigrants will bear the brunt for that type of propaganda and misinformation.”
