The New Yorker executive order Michael Luo recently came out with a book chronicling the history of Chinese-Americans, and on Monday, he went on PBS’s Amanpour and Company to talk about it. During his discussion with Walter Isaacson, Luo would warn that talking about China as a threat in a foreign policy context could lead to the growth of “racial suspicion.”
Isaacson asked, “One of the political issues today involves China in a geopolitical sense, a strategic sense, a competition with China, fights with China over everything from chips and tariffs and things like that. Is that at all connected to the anti-immigrant sentiments that you may have felt on the Upper East Side from that racist woman?”
Luo tried to claim it was, “I mean, I think so. So, the interesting thing is in this history that I write about, which is centered on the late 19th century and early 20th century, China was incredibly weak. It was torn by war, internecine warfare. It was kind of humiliated with the Western powers.”
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