Maybe because of this thread, my first thought was “We’ve always been at war with EastAsia.”
On a more serious note, I think it’s a bit of observational bias. Because you’re thinking of it, you notice it. You think it’s happening more often because you are noticing it more often. Plus, things like this are cyclical. In the 80s, one of the major broadcast networks hired an asian female as one of their main news anchors; all of a sudden, every local station had to have an asian female reporter. The cycle will change.