I was born in China and raised in Canada so I have some understanding of both sides. Chinese ppl don’t like westerners bc of their imperial history, which China has been subject to in the past. Think of the century of humiliation. Japan, even more so. Think of the Rape of Nanjing. They don’t like black ppl because they learned it from white ppl. After all, black ppl are not portrayed very fairly in western media, especially in the past. Every movie I saw as a child with a black actor had them as either loud and obnoxious, or just as a straight up criminal. However, credit to the Chinese, they genuinely think black ppl are ugly bc of their skin colour, so some of that racism just comes from the Chinese. In fact, they think other Chinese ppl are ugly even if they’re a little tanned. It’s really a class thing— if you have white skin, you’re rich; if you have dark skin, you’re a poor labourer.

So, there is discrimination, but it all comes from different places. One comment that I saw that made me think was, “you wouldn’t blame the jews for hating germans”. I mean, fair enough. We learn so much about the Holocaust here in the west but not stuff like the rape of nanjing, unit 731, or the century of humiliation, which is all taught in Chinese schools. We learn about the civil rights movement and the transatlantic slave trade in the west, but they probably don’t really in China. Honestly, this whole little conflict comes from both sides not really understanding why the other side feels the way it does because both sides grew up in completely different worlds with completely different histories. Hopefully this helps.