{"id":2663,"date":"2020-05-04T21:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2020-05-04T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:32:52","slug":"the-world-is-awaking-to-the-ugly-realities-of-the-chinese-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Awaking to the Ugly Realities of the Chinese Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Earlier&nbsp;this month, a McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Guangzhou, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, was forced to remove a sign warning that \u201cblack people are not allowed to enter.\u201d Upon removing it, McDonald\u2019s told NBC News in a statement that the sign was \u201cnot representative of our inclusive values.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That sounds like what it almost certainly is: a product of the company\u2019s communications department, called in to do damage control. And while we can accept that the McDonald\u2019s corporation itself is not, on the whole, racist, the sign&nbsp;<em>does<\/em>&nbsp;unfortunately represent China\u2019s values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As NR\u2019s Jim Geraghty has noted, the incident is an example of the \u201cxenophobia and racism\u201d on display just now in China. This phenomenon is not new to the PRC, but the government has an extra incentive to lean into it now, because it helps the government\u2019s concerted campaign to deflect blame for the global coronavirus pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world-awaking-ugly-realities-chinese-103041415.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world-awaking-ugly-realities-chinese-103041415.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Earlier this month, a McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Guangzhou, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, was forced to remove a sign warning that \u201cblack people are not allowed to enter.\u201d Upon removing it, McDonald\u2019s told NBC News in a statement that the sign was \u201cnot representative of our inclusive values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like what it almost certainly is: a product of the company\u2019s communications department, called in to do damage control. And while we can accept that the McDonald\u2019s corporation itself is not, on the whole, racist, the sign does unfortunately represent China\u2019s values.<\/p>\n<p>As NR\u2019s Jim Geraghty has noted, the incident is an example of the \u201cxenophobia and racism\u201d on display just now in China. This phenomenon is not new to the PRC, but the government has an extra incentive to lean into it now, because it helps the government\u2019s concerted campaign to deflect blame for the global coronavirus pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,758],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}