The author said, “Authors usually don’t draw up titles for articles written by themselves... If there is a problem with the content of the article, you can find the author, but if the title is controversial, please go to the editorial theory.”
The author of the controversial article in The Wall Street Journal thinks "Shake the pot"? On the evening of the 8th local time, a message posted on social media by the writer of the article "China is the Real Sick Man of Asia" and an American conservative foreign policy scholar Walter Meade attracted great attention. He said: "Please follow me (Twitter) Chinese people know: For an American newspaper, the author usually does not draw up a headline for an article written by himself...If there is a problem with the content of the article, you can find the author, but if the title is controversial, please go to the editor for theory. "
(Screenshot of Walter Mead's Twitter)
On the 3rd of this month, the US "Wall Street Journal" (hereinafter referred to as WSJ) publicly published a discriminatory article "China is the real Asian sick man" with the help of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. In the article, the author Mead used the new crown pneumonia epidemic to slander China's economy and prospects, and the title of the article is full of maliciousness. After the article was published, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and ordinary people immediately strongly condemned it; under Mead's Twitter, many netizens also criticized his racist attitude, and some wrote to Mead to protest. Not only that, Mead’s profile on Wikipedia has also added a new label: racist.
(Screenshot of the Wall Street Journal report)
On the 6th, Chinese in the United States initiated a signature campaign on the White House petition website, asking WSJ to remove this discriminatory manuscript and formally apologize. As of early on the 9th local time, this petition has collected more than 100,000 signatures. In addition, more and more American academics have joined the controversy. Joey, an ethnology scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, criticized WSJ's report as "extremely wrong" on the 8th, believing that such texts would incite panic and anxiety, and increase hostility towards Chinese and other Asians.
On the 8th, Mead responded to the discriminatory headlines of articles he wrote on his personal Twitter. However, as of press time, WSJ has not yet taken any proactive measures for this article.
Source: Global Times-World Wide Web/Lu Wen
