White House trade adviser Peter Navarro:China created this pandemic. They hid the virus, they created that virus, and they sent over hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens here to spread that around and around the world - whether they did that on purpose, that’s an open question.
The racism is strong in this one...
I'm confused. Exactly how is that racist?
"China created this pandemic." is presumably a reference to the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), not the Chinese people. The "they" in the following sentence logically would be the CCP, again, not "the Chinese People." So that just leaves "hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens" (which is hyperbolic in the extreme) being used as "a delivery mechanism" for the virus.
I guess you could claim it is racist to claim a racial group was being used as a contagion vector for a virus. But the claim in and of itself isn't inherently racist, someone
actually doing so would be, but in this case it would have been the CCP doing it, so "it gets weird" quick.
It could likewise be claimed that he is asserting the Chinese people were unwitting victims of their own government, and is instead a broader commentary on the low regard communist regimes tend to have with respect to "the lives of the masses."
What he proposes is paranoid in the extreme, unlikely to actually be true, although I will concede there actually is a probability that the CCP did intentionally release the virus, I think accidental release of the virus, possibly by way of the black market for animal remains in China, is the more likely scenario.