We Don’t Talk About China
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This may have been posted while I was away, but just in case…
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Not long after the dissolution of the USSR, I thought China was going to be the next “big bad wolf.” Indeed I noticed that more and more movies and TV series casting Chinese nationals as villains.
But then 9/11 happened, and the Arabs/Muslims became the “bad guys”, essentially took all the negative attention away from China. So China got over two decades of reprieve because of that.
Then COVID-19 came along and Trump started blaming China. And for a while, China seemed to have been taking a lot flak from Americans because of this.
Then Putin/Russia invaded Ukraine, and now the eyeballs are off of China again as we focus on Russia.
It’s like every time China gets the Americans’ negative attention, some other villain jumps out and draw the Americans’ attention away from it.
