A lot of the xenophobia is similar to the Red scare. China is effectively putting in the minds of western citizens that anyone could be a covert operative, through the police stations, lab techs being expelled, weird directives to foreign students and other espionage nonsense. It's not helping, that's for sure.
The best defense for general moronic bigotry seems to be English or French fluency. Hearing a target of racism sounding exactly like the bigot would be demoralizing to them.
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