It is important to be able to call it the 'China virus' for all the reasons China doesn't want it to be called that - names have power and squelching one to avoid offending a country is at best a slippery slope.
Again it is Americans who are dying, not the Chinese.
Also the CCP definitely cares. Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad thing for the country.
So the huge growth in asian hate crimes year over year is completely unrelated to this misguided effort to somehow blame China for COVID?
>Also the CCP definitely cares.
The CCP cares so much that they never once made a statement to Trump to stop calling it the china virus. Again it's not the Chinese who said stop calling it the China virus, it was Americans who were correctly fearful of being attacked for being Asian.
>Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad thing for the country.
This is the most laughable comment. The country that had negative PR for decades about children working in sweatshops and factory workers killing themselves is suddenly going to turn heel about the China virus when it's worked up till now. I remember all that "negative PR" being so successful when it came to Hong Kong.
If negative PR actually mattered, American imperialism wouldn't be so successful. CIA-backed coups all over the world never hurt America's economic position.
Your argument also assumes that there is some need to inform people of the origin of COVID-19. There is not. We all know it originated in China and most people now even know the name of China's 9th largest city.