The wide spread of the coronavirus and the global pandemic has paved way for a new wave for Anti-Asian hatred and rhetoric. Because of disinformation and fake news fueled by some global politics, the Asians, particularly China has been blamed for the COVID-19 virus, Maldives News Network reported on Friday.

"This accusation and following hysteria" have been further aggravated by some global powers, for example, the United Sates and its allies "specifically blaming China and accusing that the COVID-19 virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China," it said.

The unfounded "Wuhan lab-leak theory", first advocated by the former U.S. President Donald Trump is "a part of his feud against China", and was dismissed by Scientists and journalists to be a conspiracy theory, said the online newspaper.

"However, when China curbed the spread of the virus and initiated one of the world's most successful and largest vaccine drives while the U.S. recorded 35 million cases with 610,000 deaths along with it, Anti-Chinese rhetoric's once against became mainstream as the U.S. struggled to maintain its dominance over the rest of the world," it said.

China won the support across the globe via providing the much-needed aid, it said. China was busy in humanitarian work by donating and offering medical supplies and the coronavirus vaccines to the rest of the world, while the U.S. was stocking up enough coronavirus vaccines for more than three times its adult population it said, citing The Washington Post.

China has provided over 600 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world to support the global fight against COVID-19 and offered over 300 billion masks, 3.7 billion protective suits and 4.8 billion testing kits to more than 200 countries and regions, an official with the country's commerce ministry said on Friday.

However, instead of working together on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and tracing the virus origin in a scientific manner, some western countries backed and coerced by the U.S. are trying to shift the blame to China by twisting the facts and spreading disinformation about the coronavirus, it added, emphasizing that "the notion that the virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China is also highly unlikely."

Even following the joint WHO-China report on the origin of the virus, a few nations still politicized these efforts. While they were criticized by the vast majority of the globe, these few nations kept politicizing and blaming shift for the current situation, it said.

"If the WHO and other global powers are to successfully curb the spread of the virus and achieve normalcy, all states need to refrain from racism, blame shifting and politicizing a global pandemic," it noted.