By South China Morning Post | Created at 2026-08-19 21:41:52 | Updated at 2026-08-19 21:51:39
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A survey from Stop AAPI Hate, a self-reporting platform formed during the pandemic, paints an even more worrying picture, with almost half of individuals indicating they have been targeted but many decline to report it to authorities for fear of repercussions.
According to FBI data released in mid-August, reported anti-Asian hate crime incidents fell 10 per cent nationwide, from 379 in 2024 to 339 in 2025.
While that is a positive sign, advocates caution that the figure remains far above pre-pandemic norms. The annual average between 2013 and 2019 was 133 incidents, meaning anti-Asian hate crimes remain significantly elevated compared with the years before Covid-19.
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“Even with the decline in 2025, reported incidents remain elevated more than two and a half-times the historical baseline,” said Sim J. Singh Attariwala, director of the anti-Hate programme at Asian-Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC).
