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Anti-Chinese hysteria as the wrong response approach

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TIRANA TIMES OP-ED The higher ranks of the Albanian Executive, from the Prime Minister himself to the Minister of interior Affairs and the Minister of Infrastructure down to the Albanian police chiefs seem to have found an incorrect and dangerous way to shift their part of responsibility in the latest grave breach of security that happened with the heist at the international airport. The collective anti-Chinese hysteria in the narrative style of their press conferences is not just a lack of ethics but resembles downright racism and reflect a deep-seated lack of respect and failure to take their own responsibilities….

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