More and more persons are realizing that the People’s Republic of China is not America’s friend.
Many Americans became suspicious for the primary time about what China itself originally called the “Wuhan virus”; covering the research on the functions of the Wuhan laboratory in a conspiracy of silence only deepened the mistrust.
Others had quietly taken note earlier when fentanyl overdose, now the leading reason for death for Americans 18 to 49, hit close to home.
The spectacular provocation of 1 spy balloon after one other over US military installations, accompanied by preposterous denials and reverse accusations of aggression, tipped the scales to more.
Add to that the operations of China’s secret police in America, China’s drive to displace the dollar because the world’s reserve currency, China’s unprovoked and aggressive militarization on land, oceans, air and space, the TikTok scourge of our youth, and we’ve got a wave of resentment against China.
Even dictatorships hate negative press.
The benign image China has nurtured through the years with the tried and true strategy of enemy corruption has been eroded by the breadth, speed and aggressiveness of President Xi Jinping’s offensive against America.
![Scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where some believe the COVID-19 virus originated.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000007293905.jpg?w=1024)
Hence the brand new trick with the human shield.
China’s human shield scenario is easy: don’t you dare criticize China, you are inflaming “anti-Asian hatred.”
Don’t you dare query the acquisition of strategic assets in America by China or Sino-American fronts, otherwise you’re inciting “anti-Asian hatred.”
To indicate this standpoint, Chinese-American protesters suddenly show up when measures are taken against China, as within the case of SB264 in Florida – and their posters demand: “Stop anti-Asian hate!”
This is pure nonsense. America’s national interests must Never to be held hostage by such blackmail.
And for all the explanations mentioned above, Xi Jinping’s China is a national threat.
Americans come from foreign countries, but when national interests demand it, America was right to confront these foreign countries and even go to war with them.
During World War II, German, Italian, and Japanese Americans served patriotically within the armed forces and impressed America with their exceptional courage.
General Dwight Eisenhower, America’s top commander in Europe, was himself of German descent.
Yes, Japanese-American internment, in addition to smaller-scale German-American and Italian-American internment, was problematic and is now widely stigmatized.
America has improved.
There’ll all the time be individual bigots, but there have been no internments or widespread attacks on Korean and Vietnamese Americans in the course of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Same with Russian Americans in the course of the Cold War.
![A Chinese spy balloon was caught flying over the United States in February.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000010928782.jpg?w=1024)
Yes, America can tell the difference between China and the regime Americans of Chinese origin.
When Chinese-linked interests buy farmland near US military bases – which is prohibited by Florida law – the resulting debate is not racist against Chinese Americans.
This is a obligatory debate within the national interest.
Neither the facts of actual attacks on Asian Americans support the Chinese narrative.
The road robbers, store robbers, subway thugs, drug addicts and mentally unwell who make up the overwhelming majority of Asian Americans attacking are not geopolitical patriots concerned about China constructing artificial military islands in disputed seas.
Finally, many Chinese Americans got here to the US after Tiananmen Square, know Mao’s Cultural Revolution first-hand, and deeply appreciate the freedoms America guarantees.
They’re among the many harshest critics of China, together with the liberty advocates in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
To denigrate these Asians with “anti-Asian hatred”? Scandalous.
Countering China’s threats against America’s national interests should to be bipartisan.
But Democrats, all lean or far-left, cannot get past China’s blackmail because it’s only a variation of the familiar racing card Democrats play to guard their agendas.
For instance, Virginia Democrats recently voted down a proposal that schools should teach concerning the 100 million people killed by communist regimes.
Democrats argued that since most communist regimes were Asian countries, teaching concerning the evils of communism would fuel anti-Asian hatred.
This is exactly using Asian Americans as human shields for the actual Democrat agenda to proceed indoctrinating students of the greatness of socialism.
China has found a trick that the Democrats themselves use, and due to this fact cannot call out.
To each China and Democrats: Stop using Asian Americans as human shields for your agenda.
To other Asian Americans: Refuse to turn into human shields for China or Democrats their racing card tricks.
Each hurt America. Nobody needs to be or use human shields.
Wai Wah Chin is the founding president of the Greater Latest York Chinese American Civil Alliance.