Ah interesting, I guess I don't know many people who care about China issues but aren't informed enough to know about what's happening with the Uyghurs, tech tr

Ah interesting, I guess I don't know many people who care about China issues but aren't informed enough to know about what's happening with the Uyghurs, tech transfer, Confucius Institutes, etc. To me it's still really odd just on the face of it to take Covid and blame the average Chinese person who have basically been locked in their homes at the will of Xi (whether this is the right or wrong covid mitigation strategy isn't my point here, rather that they had no political recourse to change it as an individual) and have nothing to do with deciding the research in labs, national policy even via elections, or now whether they can literally travel anywhere and potentially expose other people. But I can see how that would be an easy meme to spread especially with the lab leak theory gaining more credence (although maybe that is for the best and it becomes less focused on a culture that has wet markets and all those photos which I actually do think caused some anti-Chinese sentiment because they are somewhat shocking if you're used to buying your meat in a grocery store).