Fighting Imperialism!!! ••• Reports on China: Melissa Chen: EXPOSING an anti-Chinese Chinese reporter / activist

 

“Often, the most vehement anti-China journalists and activists in the West are of Chinese descent.” That was a comment on Twitter after anti-Chinese Chinese reporters came out in force following the sudden popularity of Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu yesterday, with so-called “activist and journalist” Melissa Chen using the anti-Chinese slur “ching chong” to describe the app. A little digging found that she’s used that slur very often, once referring to herself as “Ching Chong Barbie.” But it gets worse! She said she not against using even worse anti-Chinese terms, and that “context matters.” I wonder if she feels “context matters” for Asian women randomly beaten to death by strangers on the streets of New York? Today, I’ll take a closer look at the phenomenon of Chinese reporters in the U.S. embracing anti-Chinese racism. This is Reports on China, I’m Andy Boreham in Shanghai. Let’s get reporting!