https://www.scmp.com/rss/328964/feed Bai Tongdong is a professor of philosophy at Fudan University in China and a global professor of law at NYU’s Law School en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has used “Wuhan virus,” and, until recently, President Donald Trump often used “Chinese virus,” to refer to the novel coronavirus. These terms contribute to the discrimination against East Asians in America and Europe. Their use has also been criticised as an attempt to cover up the failure of the American government’s responses to the outbreak. A more serious problem is that the idea implicit in these terms – that the outbreak is a Chinese problem – and the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3078822/coronavirus-stricken-west-blaming-china-dangerous-waste-time?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3078822/coronavirus-stricken-west-blaming-china-dangerous-waste-time?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:00:13 +0000 Reports that Google has been working on a version of its search engine, code-named “Dragonfly”, that can meet the censorship criteria of the Chinese government provoked a huge backlash from Google employees and the American public that was aware of the development – that is, a very small part of the US population. Google was seen to be kowtowing to an authoritarian government and violating the company’s unofficial motto “don’t be evil”, a slogan that was removed from its code of conduct in... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2168337/china-even-censored-google-search-engine-would?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2168337/china-even-censored-google-search-engine-would?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Oct 2018 18:00:30 +0000