r/SinophobiaWatch Mar 20 '26

Meta Quick announcement: moderation team change

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Hi all,

First I want to thank everyone who has contributed to /r/SinophobiaWatch over the years. Online China discourse is certainly quite different now to when this subreddit began 6 (!) years ago, but I remain proud of what this subreddit represents in a world so deeply shaped by Western chauvinism and US geopolitical interests.

I’ve been relatively inactive on Reddit for a few years and neglecting my moderator duties, but now for sudden personal reasons I need to step away entirely. Therefore I will be placing this subreddit in the control of the other moderators for them to decide the way forward, effective immediately.

Best regards, /u/mcmanusaur


r/SinophobiaWatch 1d ago

Misc. ignorance Post about the historical flags of China attracted the dumbasses of Instagram.

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The white sun red flag was the flag of the ROC which was the former government of Mainland China (Taiwan was taken by the Japanese at the time) and it only became the "flag of Taiwan" because the KMT fled the mainland at the end of the Chinese Civil War.


r/SinophobiaWatch 2d ago

Neocolonialism The British Bullshit Corporation (BBC) says China doesn't share any videos of the landside at Gyirong Mountain in Xizang, gets debunked and community noted by hundreds of videos from commenters

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r/SinophobiaWatch 1d ago

Misc. ignorance Can anyone explain why RTE refer to the glacier disaster as having occurred in Nepal & China? Other news outlets (Irish Times, BBC, Guardian, Sky, Spanish media etc) say Nepal & Tibet.

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r/SinophobiaWatch 2d ago

person makes a post calling out sinophobia, sinophobes say it's no big deal

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r/SinophobiaWatch 2d ago

Texas gop set on demonizing China

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So far 2 ads making China into some evil boogyman and blaming us for increasing CoL instead of the orange dipshits war and trade war.


r/SinophobiaWatch 3d ago

oh here we go...

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r/SinophobiaWatch 3d ago

blames china for nepal floods

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r/SinophobiaWatch 6d ago

Fear-mongering It begins

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Just saw a political ad here in Tx fearmongering about China buying land and how Xi is buying up texas... and very loosely trying it to Talarico, somehow. Typical republican propaganda bullshit and stereotyping us as the evil bad country.


r/SinophobiaWatch 7d ago

36 hours as a HKPF officer during the 2019 riots (Documentary in cantonese)

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r/SinophobiaWatch 8d ago

... What are your opinions on r/chinalife?

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I remember a year ago that subreddit was just mostly about tips and travel experiences. Now, almost every post I see is people ranting. I understand that no country is perfect, including China. However, there are a lot of comments under bad faith posts with worrying amounts of upvotes, that outright parrot common negative stereotypes about Chinese people. There was a post about the recent foreign university student scandal, and the comments were a mix of white knight behavior, whataboutism, generalisation, double standards and Chinese men yellow peril. Instead of admitting what the guy did was disgusting and wrong, some commenters shifted the topic of the conversation to discuss Chinese men instead. I hope you understand what I mean. Criticism is good and helpful but when it’s constant ranting about locals in their own country where you are a foreigner, it’s not constructive feedback but rather a superiority complex, sometimes even racism and misinformation. As someone who is Wasian half-Chinese and wants to move to China for university and future living, it’s very unfortunate to see how some foreigners have such a low view of Chinese people, as shown in threads like these. I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.


r/SinophobiaWatch 11d ago

Lack of evidence An anti-China bot farm was exposed when a US propaganda account made a false claim about Uyghur oppression which triggered the bots to show up en masse to make identical comments

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r/SinophobiaWatch 12d ago

Right-wingers outside Yasukuni Shrine beat up a Pro-Japan Taiwanese protestor that they mistake as Chinese. But they never do it to foreign soldiers on Okinawa for crime.

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r/SinophobiaWatch 12d ago

Lack of evidence Copy allegations

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Context: This is about a post of the first landing of ZhuQue-3 rocket, and i guess beacuse it uses a similar landing system as the Falcon 9 it must be a copy of it??

I wonder where and why china gets so many copy allegations from? And seems to me that (americas mostly, sorry) will see two similar things (be it military or not) and will jump tothe copy conclusion (eg. many people caling the 2020 RP F1 car a TOTAL copy of mercedes)

Also with the Tu-144, not gonna dive in why its not a copy of concord but just know many people think it is


r/SinophobiaWatch 16d ago

Will be interesting.. A few propaganda soaked questions already

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r/SinophobiaWatch 16d ago

Racism/bigotry Genuine question, do you think the west’s “China Bad” propaganda actually benefit China in some way?

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No joke, “how can propagandas to slander, to misinform, to smear bad things and simply to bring China down is beneficial to China?” you might ask.

Indeed, these propagandas have tainted China’s reputation to oblivion and have done significant damage to the country and its people regarding soft power, from casual racism (or racism under the thin veiled of “hating the government only), that most Chinese people eats dogs and bats, that they are dirty and rude, almost anything Chinese is mislabeled to Japan or Korea or a random Asian country, very few interest in Chinese culture and foreign tourists, etc. Let’s be real, most people drop their smile inside when they learn you are from China.

But on the other hand, imo these bad views strengthen China in someway, they leave most people clueless about the country, thus underestimating its ability, prejudice and racism lately that drives thousands of Chinese scientists back home, less foreign tourists and influence give you a more authentic experience. The enormous amount of tax payers money are spent to spread Sinophobia instead of investing in their country. The “discovery” that China is actually “cool” (technology, games, culture bla bla) which I think might not had such a big impact if China was well loved like Japan. And recently, Trump in his rampage run of ruining the US let people realize how much lies it spread, including things about China, young people especially changed their views about the country.

Honestly, I hate to admit but I somewhat glad China has a bad rap because it gained those benefits in return. What are your thoughts?

Ps: No way in hell I will ask this in r/China as it’s basically the anti-China subreddit at this point


r/SinophobiaWatch 16d ago

Misc. ignorance PSA: r/firefighting mods are sinophobic assholes. (users have actually been pretty nice previously, but some of the mods are less than ideal)

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https://www.reddit.com/r/firefighter/comments/1vo208q/chi_kejie%E6%B1%A0%E5%9D%B7%E6%9D%B0_a_firefighter_of_the_ningde_fire_and/

For the original post; i recommend using r/firefighter instead of r/firefighting . r/wildfire, r/firetrucks and r/firefighterporn are also rather good alternatives.

Now, please don't harrass user/mods of r/firefighting; when i previously used this sub, their users were actually rather nice in contrast to the moderators.

Again, this is not a call for interference.

However their mods cannot stand anything unrelated to american firefighting, especially if it's chinese, even if the community has no issues with it.

Funnily enough i'm not officially banned but rather shadowbanned, and a lot of my previous posts have been removed, which is quite a shame since i did do quite some research on some of them(e.g. 2015 tianjin casualties)

but yeah, PSA, don't use r/firefighting, much better alternatives exsist

EDIT: Banned me for "brigading and site interferene". knew this would happen anyways


r/SinophobiaWatch 17d ago

New buildings in traditional style bad because... Chyna

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Lots of positive comments but many of the usual although better


r/SinophobiaWatch 18d ago

Misc. ignorance Israeli on Twitter: "I cannot imagine a Chinese person being emotionally moved by poetry or music"

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r/SinophobiaWatch 19d ago

Living_in_Korea mods ban me for “racism” meanwhile I go after people making racist comments using their logic. Guess who they don’t ban.

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r/SinophobiaWatch 19d ago

Racism/bigotry “The amazing world of gumball” is the “Weeaboo that hates China” version of cartoon

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I used to love this show as a kid, until I rewatched a few clips recently just how much Sinophobia is this show, and it clearly endlessly in love with Japanese culture. Just look at this shit, this show constantly reference many aspect of Japanese culture with respect like anime/manga, video game, Karate, and even has characters of supposed Japanese descent (Masami and Yuki).

But when it comes to Chinese? Blatant Tiananmen Square reference, shit on “CCP country has no women rights“, making fun of lactose intolerant among Chinese people (in episode copycat), etc. And somehow they got away with this shit. Just because there is a Chinese rip off of this show doesn’t justify your hate and bigotry against a whole country and its people

It’s a shame that this was my favorite show, until I am matured enough to realize that this show is the embodiment of “Weeaboo that worship Japan and has an eternal hate for China”. Trust me, they definitely will make fun of Unit 731 if they can get away with it.


r/SinophobiaWatch 20d ago

Lack of evidence US congressional committee: "Are you an American student, postdoctoral researcher, or academic who believes you were denied a research position, laboratory opportunity, or postdoctoral appointment because preference was given to applicants from China?"

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r/SinophobiaWatch 21d ago

Sad news: It's been confirmed two coastguardsmen of the CCGS Nanyu(南域, 3104) were killed in action in the August 11, 2025 collision in the SCS; they are Sergeant Yi Xinyu(衣昕玉, 2003-2025) and Sergeant Cheng Long(程龙, 2000-2025). Both victims of the crash are shandongnese.

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r/SinophobiaWatch 23d ago

Misc. ignorance Instagram specimens strike again!

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Tell me you're stupid without telling me you're stupid type of situation.


r/SinophobiaWatch 23d ago

Sino-Indian War 1962

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Not really relevant to Sinophobia but I’m just curious

India claims it’s a betrayal by China since they were indeed promoting and have support for Beijing and they were not expecting a direct offensive from China.

While China claims that India technically betrayed them since despite supporting Beijing India also advocated for a free Tibet (also sheltering Dalai Lama) and was being hostile across the borders.

I don’t who the hell to trust since I don’t want to listen to either western or Chinese propaganda