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    A FITTING RESPONSE

    Mar 19, 2020 5 minutes
    By Zhang Weiwei
    Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey

    The author is dean of the China Institute of Fudan University

    The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disaster facing all humanity, and standing together to find solutions is the right path forward. However, since the outbreak began, Western media reports on China have been filled with xenophobic, racist and derogatory messages trying to smear China and its efforts to combat the disease.

    The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed titled China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia written by an American scholar who has a Cold War mindset. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross suggested the coronavirus would “help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America.” These opinions caused an international outcry.

    Righting the record

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