The Origin and History of the Term “Chinese Communist Virus” Chinese Academic Society Lecture Review

Veteran media personality Wei Bizhou explained the “U.S. economic perspective observation”, he said that the increase of discrimination cases against Asians happens from time to time, this wave is because of the epidemic, some people think it is because Trump called out the “Chinese Communist virus” last year, but he reviewed He recalled the history of the term “Chinese communist virus”.

He said that after the outbreak of the plague in Wuhan last year, the five major U.S. airports in mid-January required temperature measurements of Chinese travelers, indicating that the CDC had noticed the plague. January 25 was Chinese New Year, and a large number of mainland Chinese travelers came to the United States to visit relatives and travel, and the situation was urgent, but at this time the impeachment of Trump was in the voting stage, and media attention was focused on the impeachment.

But Deputy National Security Advisor Bo Ming, who was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in China in 2002, has reported on SARS and knows the events leading up to and following the outbreak, including the Chinese Communist authorities’ cover-up and neglect of the outbreak, and his brother is a virologist at the University of Washington. Bo Ming said in the White House that the matter was serious, but his voice was not taken seriously. He called a Chinese doctor he knew for this reason, who told him that this plague exceeded SARS and surpassed the Spanish flu in 1936, and he was so nervous when he got the news that he and his superiors met with Trump to tell him the seriousness of the situation.

According to media reports, Trump was very angry and cursed after hearing the news, and immediately announced a travel ban on China the next day (January 31). The first case of New Coronary Pneumonia was diagnosed in New York City on March 1, when the patient returned from Iran, and the second case was diagnosed on March 3, when a Jewish lawyer living in Westchester County just returned to New York from a flight to Miami. This shows that “the virus was not brought by the Chinese”.

But why did Trump say “Chinese Communist virus”? Because Trump felt he had been lied to by Xi Jinping. Xi thought the epidemic would be over by April, as heat generally kills the virus.

But then the Chinese Communist Party “blamed” the U.S. for the source of the virus, and the “U.S. military poisoning theory” circulated online, saying that the U.S. brought the virus to mainland China when U.S. military personnel were in Wuhan for the military games – a conspiracy theory. -This is a conspiracy theory, to divert attention, the Chinese Communist Party began to dump the pot, March 12, the Chinese Foreign Ministry “war wolf” spokesman Zhao Lijian said that the virus was brought to the U.S. military.

Trump was so angry about this that at a press conference in March, Trump explicitly used the term “China Virus,” so the “China Virus” came out of this place to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to throw the origin of the virus onto American soldiers. military personnel.

At the same time, 3M masks could not be shipped back to the U.S. from mainland China, and the U.S. knew that it was becoming subject to the Chinese Communist Party. In March and April, if any country wanted to accept masks from mainland China, they could not say that the virus came from mainland China. By April and May, Trump began a full-scale counterattack, he said to the FBI, the NSA, the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce and other departments related to national security, all the programs to deal with the Chinese Communist Party were launched to implement, so that the subsequent emergence of the United States against Huawei 5G, Chinese students and scholars who may act as spies, Confucius Institute and other actions, and finally closed the Chinese Communist Consulate General in Houston.

Mr. Wei said that the epidemic has put Chinese Americans under a lot of pressure, but it should be recognized that the institutional discrimination (institution of discrimination) suffered by Asians in the U.S. (such as being suppressed for being Asian for promotion in companies, being treated differently in police stations and courts) is basically very mild, and there are channels for complaints. What is serious now is the random attacks on people walking on the road.

He believes that the solution is for the media to report on Asian hate cases and to follow up on the punishment of criminals, so as to warn the whole society and deter criminals, and for the Asian community to strengthen the dialogue with relevant ethnic community leaders.