Anti-China feeling masks the west's own Covid-19 failures

""" But the scale of the anti-China reaction is disproportionate to the reality of the courageous contributions made by Chinese scientists to our global understanding of this pandemic. """

The headline is certainly true, and that's the point of fanning that particular xenophobic flame. If it whips up enough anti-China crapaganda, it's possible that the Trump administration won't be blamed for it's failed/nonexistent/politically-motivated Covid-19 response. It's also true that China apparently bungled it's own Covid-19 response.

> But these questions and challenges must be pursued through a commitment to strengthened cooperation, not hostile threats. A pandemic is a moment for conciliation, respect, and honesty between friends.

For decades, the West has helped build up China and was very friendly and conciliatory towards China. And what do we get as a result of that? As the author stated himself:

> China has come under increasing international scrutiny and criticism – for its “wolf-warrior diplomacy”, the imprisonment and repression of the Uighur people in Xinjiang, denial of freedoms to Tibetans, belligerence towards Taiwan, the potential dangers of allowing Huawei to be part of western 5G technologies, its claims to the South China Sea, and the imposition of a draconian national security law in Hong Kong that has seemingly extinguished the pro-democracy movement.

You'd have to be VERY naieve to think playing "nice" is the way forward in 2020.

EDIT: Like clockwork, downvoted within the first few minutes of posting because my comment was critical of China. HN, please rethink the voting system. We cannot have healthy discourse if certain viewpoints can be buried so easily.