Danny Haiphong

US fearmongering on China not rooted in facts, but racism

Danny Haiphong / December 13, 2020 / 7 min read

Racist fears about China have existed for more than a century in the United States. ‘Yellow Peril’ emerged as a mechanism to control and exploit migrant Chinese workers fleeing from the devastation that the West’s Opium Wars imposed on China. Today, this racism has manifested in tandem with contemporary forms of anti-communism to demonize China in mainstream politics and media.

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