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(Hadalsame) 28 April 2020<\/strong><\/span> – It\u2019s just over a quarter of a century since the American political scientist Samuel Huntington wrote his famous essay on the Clash of Civilisations<\/a>.\u00a0It set the tone for a series of wars.\u00a0Huntington was writing after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War between Soviet Russia and the West. Rather than an era of peace, Huntingdon forecast a new struggle between what he viewed as irreconcilable enemies: Islam and the West.<\/p>\n The West likes, perhaps needs, an enemy and the latest target is China.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Huntington asserted that identity, rather than ideology, lay at the heart of contemporary politics. “What are you?”, he asked, “and as we know, from Bosnia to the Caucasus to the Sudan, the wrong answer to that question can mean a bullet in the head.”\u00a0He added:”Islam has bloody borders.”\u00a0Western politicians like former US President George W\u00a0Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair followed Huntington\u2019s lead. For the last quarter\u00a0century, many Muslim countries have been the target of the US\u00a0and its allies.\u00a0Meanwhile Muslims have often been portrayed<\/a> in\u00a0Western media as lawless, radical ideologues and an existential threat to the world. This has given rise to virulent Islamophobia in the West with the rise of far right <\/a>political parties in Europe.\u00a0I will argue today that much of this noxious hostility may soon abate in the aftermath of the coronavirus <\/a>tragedy. This is partly because (especially in Britain) the sacrifices<\/a> made by Muslims are so obvious and have been so great that this may lead to a belated change in public attitudes. The first three medical staff to die<\/a> from the outbreak were all Muslim.\u00a0But there is a second factor at work:\u00a0the coronavirus pandemic is reshaping global geopolitics. The West likes, perhaps needs, an enemy and the latest target is China.<\/p>\n China is being presented as the new existential enemy, just as Islam was 20 years ago. And by the very same people. The same newspaper columnists, the same think tanks, the same political parties and the same intelligence agencies.After Huntington\u2019s famous essay that\u00a0led the charge against Muslims – or what they often call radical Islam – now they have turned their attention to the Far East.\u00a0US President Donald Trump, the world\u2019s Muslim-basher-in-chief, has now started to attack China, rather as Bush, his Republican predecessor, attacked Iraq in 2003 and the “axis of evil” 20 years ago. During his campaign in 2016 he accused China of “raping”<\/a>\u00a0the US economy.However, since the outbreak of Covid-19, Trump’s\u00a0attacks have gained speed and traction.\u00a0He has accused<\/a> China of covering up the virus and lying about its death toll.\u00a0Earlier this month, he even stopped US funds to the World Health Organization, calling it too “China-centric\u201d.<\/a> British newspapers, which have cut down entire forests to vent their spleen against Muslims, have pivoted to the Chinese menace.<\/p>\nTargeting China<\/h3>\n