China Blames ‘Xenophobia’ and ‘White Supremacist Racism’ for Coronavirus Fears

Chinese state media continued their efforts this week to mitigate political damage from the coronavirus epidemic by claiming Western concerns about the spread of the disease, and complaints about China’s lack of transparency, are founded in “xenophobia” and “white supremacist racism” reminiscent of the “Yellow Peril” hysteria of the late 19th Century.

“The U.S. travel restrictions on China and criticism of China’s quarantine strategy to contain the COVID-19 have been seen as a racist politicization of the epidemic,” China’s state-run Global Times declared on Wednesday, without demonstrating that anyone other than themselves sees the situation that way.

The Chinese Communist paper went on to attack American health care, presumably to distract from the mounting horror stories about how China is dealing with the epidemic. To the Global Times, it is healthy America that is trying to distract the rest of the world from China’s narrative of the epidemic:

The US is the only major country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to its citizens as a human right. It’s estimated about 30,000 people in the US die every year because they can’t afford medical treatment, according to Physicians for a National Health Program. In the midst of such an incomplete system, it is unfortunately easy to understand why there are so many deaths from the seasonal flu.

To distract from this travesty, it is easy to understand why the US corporate media, with similar profit motivations as the drug and pharmaceutical companies, would rather sensationalize COVID-19 than adequately focus on domestic health disasters. Fear helps generate profit and distracts Americans from understanding the social problems around them.

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After once again quoting politically useful praise from the World Health Organization (WHO) – itself under scrutiny for prioritizing good relations with Beijing over frank discussions of the coronavirus threat – the Global Times claimed “bigotry” and “imperialism” are the only reasons China gets hassled about health crises that are covered without “compassion” by Western media:

The yellow peril stereotype, borrowed from Europe by American white supremacist writers in the 19th century, has long affected the Western cultural psyche. The idea that “sneaky Asians” would destroy Western nations became a racist trope used to justify hostility toward societies exploited by colonization and imposed underdevelopment. This explains modern-day delusions from US Senator Tom Cotton about biological warfare.

In spite of that chronic underdevelopment however, China has come a long way since achieving sovereignty. Though ever-evolving and still in development, China’s healthcare system has worked to deliver free medical treatment to all COVID-19 patients. The government constructed a COVID-19 focused improvised hospital within 10 days. The lockdown of Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak in Central China’s Hubei Province, has allowed for the first decline in new cases in weeks. Taking decisive steps has helped China, and specifically Wuhan, repel initial mistakes and help stabilize the virus outbreak.

An even more heated Global Times screed on Tuesday accused American politicians, corporations, and media of using the coronavirus story to “promote white supremacist racism and the advantage of their political system” by “fabricating” a treat from China against the free world.

This story included China’s latest obsessive mention of influenza deaths in the United States, a talking point that ignores the fact that the coronavirus turned out to be much more dangerous than the flu and far more dangerous than the Chinese Communist Party was willing to admit until recently.

The Global Times folded the coronavirus into Beijing’s standard political narrative that jealous Western powers, especially the United States, are peddling “conspiracy theories” and “bashing China” to thwart its ascension to great power status. This particular iteration of the Beijing narrative included a veiled threat that “attempts to force China into a downfall will backfire” because so much of the global industrial chain runs through China, thanks to decades of globalism.