The Chinese have been through this before.... with SARS, Avian Flu, the Hong Kong flu, the Taiwan flu etc. etc.
Anytime there is a virus epidemic which flares up, there is invariably an acompanying strain of racism virus which also flares up. and white supremacy and racism comes out of the woodwork.
Consider how some American radio talk show jocks are saying about the swine flu; this outbreak is more pervasive, vicious, and reckless than is being reported:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30467300
Consider another radio talk show host in Boston, Massachusetts and what he said about Mexicans:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/01/severin_suspended_for_comments_about_mexican_immigrants/
Remember the recent "peanuts" salmonella contamination which erupted in a warehouse of an American peanut farm and processor in Arkansas ? Or the salmonella poisoning in American-grown lettuce in California's farms ? Or how about "mad cow disease" when the disease erupted in the U.K. and then spread to Canada ?
Did we ever hear the same raving and ranting cacophony or racist diatribes from Asians or the Chinese about this contamination and toxic poisoning erupting in the WEST ? Did the Chinese call "Mad Cow Disease" the "The British virus"?
Talk about double standards. Hubris. Hambug. Haughtiness.
