Commentary On Feb. 2, The Diplomat, a respected journal on Asia-Pacific politics, published an interview with Chandran Nair, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propagandist whose views border on racism. The title of the interview said it all: “Chandran Nair on White Privilege in International Relations.” Nair’s beliefs are not atypical for a CCP propagandist. What really caught my attention was the interviewer at The Diplomat, based in Washington, falling for a lot of what Nair said. It bordered on racist, not least for its elision of the ultimate in racism and bigotry in China—what I would argue is a triple genocide per the U.N. definition, against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong. Then I noticed the interviewer was none other than The Diplomat’s editor-in-chief. Maybe this explained the lackluster coverage of China by that journal over the years. I had seen a lot of description in The Diplomat, which is sometimes …
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