I'm aware of the difference between the Chinese government and the people of China in the same way I can distinguish between the people of Russia and their government. Same for Germany, the US or any other country. This race card play is diversionary.
Then you must also be aware that a very large amount of people are not aware of or don't care about the difference. The race blind card exists as well.
The headline is not "racist" it just doesn't explicitly differentiate between the people of the country and the government of that country. Calling it racism changes the topic of the conversation without starting a substantive conversation about racism or the relationship between citizens and their government.
The consequence remains the same with the people I mention that don't care about or are aware of the difference between:
> it just doesn't explicitly differentiate between the people of the country and the government of that country.
> Calling it racism changes the topic of the conversation without starting a substantive conversation about racism or the relationship between citizens and their government.
Ignoring the fact that we have a very, very large amount of shitty people that will start using this to do racist things is just as problematic.
