@Neville
You are WRONG
The change from Oriental to Asian, didn’t come from white liberals, read the following:
“American English
” American English speakers consider the term “Oriental” to be a pejorative and disparaging term when used to describe a person[1]. John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, said the basic criticism of the term developed in the U.S. in the 1970s. Tchen has said: “With the U.S.A. anti-war movement in the ’60s and early ’70s, many Asian Americans identified the term ‘Oriental’ with a Western process of racializing Asians as forever opposite ‘others’.”[19] In a 2009 American press release related to legislation aimed at removing the term “oriental” from official documents of the State of New York, Governor David Paterson said: “The word ‘oriental’ does not describe ethnic origin, background or even race; in fact, it has deep and demeaning historical roots”.[20]
In 2016, President Barack Obama signed legislation striking the word from federal law.[21]”
President Obama, is mixed race, not white, Director Tchen is not white.
I was asked not to use the term by a Japanese math professor I had in college in 1972.
When I use Asian to refer to people I am referring to all East Asian ans Southeast Asian people from many more countries than you list,
When referring to Indo-Paks, Bengladeshis and Ceylonese I use the term Southern Asian, Southwest Asian refers to people from traditional Arab and/or Islamic lands.
Central Asian refers to the ‘real’ Caucasians (those from beyond the Caucasus Mountains in the former USSR and nearby regions