No, Condemning the CCP Is Not ‘Panic’

In the latest edition of his Substack newsletter, columnist Peter Beinart charges that “panic” over the Chinese Communist Party’s actions in the world has fueled anti-Asian violence in the United States:

It seems that Beinart fails to directly link acts of violence targeting Asian Americans with criticism of the CCP’s indefensible conduct by politicians. If there is a connection between unequivocal condemnations of the Party and violence targeting Asian Americans today, Beinart does not explicitly establish one in his post, relying instead on the examples of Islamophobia in post-9/11 America, the Cold War-era Red Scare, and Japanese-American internment.

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Jimmy Quinn

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In the latest edition of his Substack newsletter, columnist Peter Beinart charges that “panic” over the Chinese Communist Party’s actions in the world has fueled anti-Asian violence in the United States:

It seems that Beinart fails to directly link acts of violence targeting Asian Americans with criticism of the CCP’s indefensible conduct by politicians. If there is a connection between unequivocal condemnations of the Party and violence targeting Asian Americans today, Beinart does not explicitly establish one in his post, relying instead on the examples of Islamophobia in post-9/11 America, the Cold War-era Red Scare, and Japanese-American internment.