Migrants’ death yet again reveals Western bias against China

Three weeks ago 39 illegal Vietnamese migrants were found dead in a container truck in Essex, Britain, in a shocking case of human smuggling. Equally shocking was the way some Western media outlets initially covered the tragic news. Thanks to their inherent bias against China, they presumed the unfortunate victims were Chinese nationals, and didn’t even bother apologizing for violating journalism ethics. And they kept asking why these “Chinese” (later they changed “Chinese” to “Vietnamese”) risked their lives despite their country’s fast economic development.

Obviously, the victims wanted to pursue a “better” life. Perhaps they knew many Britons had gone to America hundreds of years ago to realize the “American Dream”. Who cared whether those European migrants were carrying with them a small book called passport? And who bothered to check if those migrants had secured a visa in advance to enter the United States of America?

When the British and other colonial forces attacked China twice during the two Opium Wars in mid-18th century killing many Chinese and causing huge economic losses, some Chinese tried to flee to another country where they could live in peace.

When the brutal Japanese aggressors massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese and destroyed their homes, some Chinese tried to relocate to other countries.

When the US forces were bombing and burning Vietnamese people’s homes and land in the 1960s and 1970s, some of them fled the country in search of safer places including those thousands of kilometers away.