Washington: US President Joe Biden condemned on Thursday that the “Vicious Hate Crimes” committed against Asian Americans since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Joe Biden calling such acts “Un-American” and demanding they stop. Joe Biden is first primetime address said “too often, we’ve turned against one another.”

In his address, he detailing the progress made in the fight against Covid-19. The US president Biden decried “vicious hate crimes against Asian Americans who have been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated” over the pandemic, which originated in China. Biden also said “At this very moment, so many of them, our fellow Americans — they’re on the front lines of this pandemic trying to save lives and still, still they’re forced to live in fear for their lives just walking down streets in America.” “It’s wrong. It’s un-American. And it must stop.”

Activists say broader anti-Asian discrimination has been fuelled by talk of the “Chinese virus” from former president Donald Trump and others. According to a California state university study, Racial motivation is hard to establish in many cases, but reported anti-Asian hate crimes more than doubled from 49 to 122 last year across 16 major US cities including New York and Los Angeles — even as overall hate crime fell.