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Didn't the Soviets also highlight the plight of African Americans? If you want another reason to seriously tackle systemic racism here then shoring up our international prestige and undercutting the critiques of our enemies can be added to the ledger.
They play all sorts of angles. <45>
China’s state-backed China Daily newspaper claimed on Monday that the United States started the AIDS crisis, saying it “spread to the world” after its discovery in the 1980s.
Quoting Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang, the paper wrote, “AIDS was first discovered in the US in the 1980s and spread to the world, causing great agony for the world. Has anyone held the US accountable?” The paper also quoted Shuang pinning the 2009 H1N1 Flu on the United States as well as the 2008 financial crisis.
The publication also pushed the line in a Monday column by Ronald Ng, a hematologist and former medical lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and London University, who faulted the United States for stigmatizing homosexuals as well as the Chinese, Ng wrote. The media called it ‘gay-related immune deficiency'.
Ng said the U.S. was discriminating against Chinese people the same way: “We can see the same process happening now, with the coronavirus being politicized to stigmatize Chinese because the first known cases were detected in Wuhan.”