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Hans-Georg Moeller
Hans-Georg Moeller
Dr Hans-Georg Moeller is a professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme at the University of Macau.

The targeting of Confucius Institutes is not just about language teaching or combating communist infiltration: just like the trade war, this is about opening up China, primarily for US companies. And the main obstacle to this is the Communist Party.

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In 2016, Trump pinned US socio-economic woes on China and won the election. This year, he is pinning Covid-19 on China to distract Americans from his policy failures. Will ‘Getting tough on China’ get him re-elected?

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Some Western media outlets have invoked the ‘yellow peril’ in their coverage of a ‘Made in China’ virus. Intentionally or not, such an approach is inciting xenophobia in the West and also fuelling a nationalistic backlash in China.

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