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So do you want to say that when some countries impose sanctions on, say, Iran, it's racist because there are nice people in Iran, and sanctions affect them as well?

Or it is not racists when governments do it, but is racists when individuals/companies do it?

Shouldn't that be "nationalist" or "jingoist"? Chinese citizens aren't all one race (though the official Party line seems to suggest they should be, and policies like they're unleashing in Xinjiang and Tibet seem to be trying to achieve that by force).

It's racist.

Those attempts at denying that because a country or a people are not "a race" is ludicrous.

If I say that I don't like Mexicans that's racist, for example. If I try to deny it because that's not "a race" I will only ridiculise myself even more.

Sure, I understand what you're saying (and racism and jingoism are pretty hard to separate in practice). Clearly most private citizens anywhere in the world (outside of China...) don't have much to worry about using Huawei hardware, and if these laptops run Deepin they could easily have any other distro installed instead, if people are worried about the software.

When people insult Americans are they being racist?