Stupid to regard one civilization as exceptional

Editor's note: Last month, Kiron Skinner, director of policy planning at the United States State Department, made racist remarks and described the US trade dispute with China as a "clash of civilizations". Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

Skinner did not hide her deep-rooted antipathy toward China, describing the US' fractious relations with China as "a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology." Skinner said it was the first time the US had faced a "great power competitor that is not Caucasian".

Such kind of uproar is reminiscent of the words used by the Nazis on the Jewish and Slavic nations. It is still chilling to think of the heinous crimes committed by the Nazis backed by their belief in Aryan supremacy.