OPINION | The downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon amplifies the now politically required jingoistic rhetoric directed at China by both Democrats and Republicans. But it ignores the dangers posed to Asian Americans.
prohibiting the use of opium that characterized the substance “as a symbol of transgression that the Chinese presence has elicited.” Opium, it should be remembered, was pushed upon China by the British, who found their narcotics cartel so profitable that they were willing to declare war on China twice towhen the Chinese government tried to ban its import, after opium addiction became rampant among its population.
In the 1970s and 1980s, economic competition with Japan over automobile production led to racial hate directed at Japanese Americans—a hate that resulted in the beating death of Chinese AmericanThe COVID-19 health crisis presented a political opportunity for then-President Trump to shift focus away from his administration’s failed COVID response—he blamed China.
DOJ’s racial profiling of Chinese Americans has caused such debacles as the 1999 arrest and subsequent failed prosecution of the Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee, a government-led railroading of an innocent man that ultimately led to a judge apologizing to Lee for, among other things, DOJ’s vehement insistence that Lee be held in solitary confinement.
The Pentagon has been using the “China threat” to justify its enormous budget increases, despite such facts as China
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