Information: China in Moscow
To prevent and control the epidemic, the russian police raided the local chinese to draw chinese dissatisfaction. Senior Russian officials say there is no discrimination, and China should understand cooperation. According to some analysts, what happened to the Chinese in Russia was like when Nazi fascists treated Jews. This time the dark nasty exchanges between the two countries have come to the fore, and China-Russia relationship may have been hit.
Chinese students in Moscow published in Weibo
Mayor says no discrimination against Chinese Is that credible?
Moscow`s mayor, sobyanin, wrote to ebsy in russia on february 27th, defending many chinese who had been caught by police on the streets of moscow against china. Sobyanin said Russia does not discriminate against the Chinese, asks for understanding and cooperation from China, and genuinely sympathizes with the infected Chinese. Since february 22,80 chinese have violated quarantine regulations, he said.
After the closure of the city in Wuhan, Russia has continuously introduced various anti-epidemic measures against China, grounded most flights, closed the border between the two countries and banned Chinese entry. Russian prime minister mr mishskin warned of the deportation of foreigners carrying the virus.
Russia is the only country in the world that kept the Chinese out of the way during the outbreak, but has allowed other foreigners to enter China. As a result, the Russian epidemic against China is considered the most severe compared to other countries.
As the chinese epidemic slows, russian measures against china have tightened further. Russian media reported that since february 19th, moscow subway, public transport systems have been ordered to focus on checking the chinese. In particular, the authorities printed bilingual forms for those caught in china to fill in addresses, when to arrive in russia, id numbers, contact numbers, etc.
Police in Moscow also stopped and checked Chinese documents in the streets and other public places. A local media reported that the police would take pictures of the Chinese. The Chinese will be taken to the police station if the police think there is a problem with the documents or if they do not. Next, someone will be forcibly taken to the quarantine center and may face other penalties.
Russian police on the streets The Chinese are a bird of surprise
The local chinese-focused social network is filled with a sense of self-distrustworthiness and trepidation. Someone was caught in a quarantine center by police on their way out to take out trash or go to school or even to the airport. The police sometimes knock at the door in the middle of the night at the Chinese dormitory. Police and anti-epidemic officials also took ambulances to offices with Chinese companies to hunt down Chinese. However, some Chinese said the police were polite and courteous when they were examined.
At the same time, hundreds of Chinese complained of poor conditions in the isolation centre and shared a bathroom. The so-called isolation is confined to a cord between the beds per person, while police and staff do not wear masks or gloves. They are also accused of being forced to sign, deported, and banned from russia for five years, which would hit many foreign students who are about to pay their tuition fees, or chinese who invest in business in russia.
A russian woman who has just returned from china to moscow wrote on a social network that everyone was forced to sign a voluntary quarantine order after arriving in moscow. She went home for a rest the next day and read the passage carefully. It was absurd not to mention what to do when she went out to buy food and medicine during the isolation period. Some chinese in moscow believe the order provides a legal basis for police to pursue the chinese.
The mayor of the embassy Expose the Darkness of China-Russia Relationship
China`s embassy in moscow on february 24th suggested that russia should avoid excessive law enforcement, should not discriminate only against the chinese, but also take care of relations between the two countries.
The experience of the Chinese has caused different reactions in the local society. Some applauded support for the full expulsion of the Chinese. Photo was also posted on social media with the slogan "No Chinese and fascists entering" and the pentagram with the background of the Chinese flag was replaced by coronavirus. Others have criticized china`s embassy for interfering in russia`s internal affairs.
There have also been criticisms of xenophobia and racial discrimination in Russia. Others argue that when the chinese epidemic slows and the rest of the world intensifies, russia should not only hunt down chinese, but also focus on russians, italians, koreans and iranians.
There have also been comments that the police used to check the documents of labour migrants in Central Asia as a means of income, that the Chinese are relatively wealthy and that the police will pay more for soliciting bribes.
Intriguingly, china`s embassy notes were published by the russian "new paper ", which often criticizes china, rather than other russian official media that are close to chinese relations. The newspaper is seen as pro-Western liberal media, all of them former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and retired KGB officer Lebedev, the plutocrat.
Some russian chinese scholars believe that china`s embassey`s letter, reflecting china`s discontent and the world`s antipathy to china, is part of a wave of efforts by china`s boycott, but the two countries may not be at odds with each other.
In Russia, the Chinese are like Nazi
Some analysts also believe that the rest of the world`s grievances against China are concentrated in folk and everyday life. Russia is the only state-ordered country to push a series of actions specifically against the Chinese.
Current affairs commentator nicholsky said he knew police had used moscow`s face recognition system to track down an innocent chinese woman. Many in russian society are wary of china, he said, adding fuel and fuel to the fire that could damage the relationship.
Mr. Nikolinski says the Chinese experience in Russia is reminiscent of the Nazi fascist treatment of Jews in Germany. But Jews did not have a state then, and China now proclaims itself a powerful nation.
Nikolinski:" The impression is that if they continue, they will soon demand that the Chinese in Russia wear special marks like the Jews of the year, indicating that they are harmless Chinese, or distinguishing the Chinese from the Japanese and the Koreans, because the Russians cannot tell the faces of these Asians. "
Russia has its own plan Discontented by China
Meanwhile, russian officials say they have finally acquired a new coronavirus capable of developing vaccine, but not from china.
Russian media reported that Russian epidemic officials and virus experts visited China in early February to try to obtain first-hand information about the outbreak. However, china refused to allow them to visit hospitals and contact patients, and refused to provide the virus. China only sent them out with some pompous talk of friendship between the two countries, making russia very dissatisfied and disappointed.
Russian virologists have revealed that during the SARS epidemic in 2003, Russia also could not get the virus from China, but from Germany and the United States in time. It is suspected that russia, having acquired the strain of the virus, may preempt the development of vaccine, occupying the market and making china passive.
