Name: Coronavirus: How China Spun Criticism Into “Racism”
Uploaded: 2021-07-15T14:39:55.000Z
Duration: 13 min 19 s
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If you don't like how China has handled the coronavirus...

At least, that's what the Chinese Communist Party says.

In our last segment, I showed you how the Chinese Communist Party

covered up the coronavirus, and used ruthless authoritarian tactics

...and yet still managed to turn it into a propaganda win.

Watch that segment if you haven't already.

It's a great lesson on how to create a huge mess

and then make everyone believe you are saving them

But some people here in the west continue to criticize how

the Chinese Communist Party has handled the coronavirus.

That makes it much harder for the Chinese Communist Party

Which is why the Party has a new term for the people who criticize them:

in my favorite Chinese state-run media, the Global Times:

“Racism shows ugly side as China fights coronavirus.”

I feel like the Communist Party really gets us.

There have been documented instances of racism,

Like this questionable Corona Time photo from Belgium.

And this Mexican performance with a dancing coronavirus,

“This video, showing a man on the subway

Which is not only racist, but also bad science.

Also, what kind of person carries around of Febreze?

There have also been more serious cases of allegedly racist attacks.

Anyway, all this is to say, there have definitely been cases

of individuals being racist towards Chinese people—

since racist people don't always try to make that distinction.

But that's not what the Chinese Communist Party is concerned about.

What they're doing is accusing governments

And using that to push their own propaganda.

For example, in February, as the Chinese economy was crashing

from the impact of the Communist Party's massive quarantines,

the Wall Street Journal published this editorial,

actually refers to a country that's in trouble economically—

and that's very clear if you actually read the article.

But as I talked about in a previous episode,

that has historically been considered racist in China,

So it's not surprising that Chinese state-run media

demanded an apology for the “racist headline.”

In fact, they published dozens of articles that criticized

the “racist” and “anti-China” reaction to the coronavirus

that used the Wall Street Journal article as the main example.

And Chinese authorities expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters from China

...though the expulsion was probably not really about the headline,

as much as it was getting rid of Western journalists in China.

Chinese state-run media also cried racism

when a newspaper in Denmark published this image.

The article criticized the Chinese regime's coverup of the coronavirus.

Because the image wasn't racist against Chinese people.

It was satirizing the Chinese government,

because it covered it up for almost two months!

Foreign governments are not immune to charges of racism, either.

That Chinese state media article says the Australian government's

travel ban on people who had recently been in China

“provoked a new resurgence of racism.”

Even though the ban was only on people coming to Australia from mainland China.

It did not target ethnically Chinese people coming to Australia from elsewhere,

So the travel ban targeted the country that had the outbreak,

So really, when it comes to media and governments,

but words and actions specifically targeted at the country of China

and its ruling regime, the Chinese Communist Party.

But that nuance is intentionally ignored by the Chinese Communist Party

They want to conflate those issues to play the racism card.

written by the head of the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles.

praising China's response to the coronavirus,

claiming that its response saved the rest of the world,

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