- Senate Resolution 580 condemns all forms of Anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19, citing Chinese Virus, Wuhan Virus, and Kung Flu as inaccurate rhetoric perpetuating anti-Asian stigma.
- The terms Chinese Virus and Wuhan Virus were used by U.S. officials and some news outlets early in the coronavirus crisis, which led to condemnation from the Chinese government and then from members of the American news media.
- President Trump defended his use of the term Chinese Virus in March, saying it is not racist at all and pushing back on Chinese propaganda saying the virus came from the United States.
- Senator Kamala Harris has introduced legislation that would equate the term Chinese virus with hate speech, and would call on government officials everywhere to denounce it.
- But a Washington Free Beacon report found Chinese state-media outlets routinely referred to the pathogen as the Wuhan virus or Wuhan pneumonia through mid-February.
- There is no logical reason to think that saying Chinese virus encourages and enables acts of violence against Asian Americans.
- Besides, the Chinese government itself referred to the Wuhan virus until well into February.
- China angered American workers with their trade practices and trying to blame the United States for the coronavirus pandemic, with the Chinese government hinting that the virus was brought to China by the U.S. military.
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