Max Fisher of the New York Times on media coverage of China, COVID-19, and Trump

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Max Fisher, one of The Interpreter columnists for the New York Times, on what U.S. media coverage got right — and wrong — about the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, and the concerning parallels between 2002 and 2020. 8:33: American media coverage of the outbreak 15:14: Dehumanizing the disease in China 22:17: The role of the media in American political discourse 39:11: Moving the American consensus point on China Recommendations: Max: The Farewell, by Lulu Wang.  Kaiser: Eternal Life: A Novel, by Dara Horn.