Cavolo: Xenophobic attacks are not appropriate when people suffering
Updated 09:32, 09-Feb-2020
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One article that has reached over one million views on social media is a piece entitled "Something's Not Right Here Folks."​ It compares reactions to the novel coronavirus with the H1N1 outbreak in the U.S. eleven years ago. Its author, Mario Cavolo, is an Italian-American writer, artist, speaker, and communications advisor who's been in China for 20 years. He wrote in the article: "But I do know this: It needs to stop. This vicious, political, xenophobic, racist attacks, and smearing of all things China needs to stop." CGTN has interviewed him for what makes him decide to write this passage?