The resolution has prompted criticism from lawmakers who argued it could put Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in harm's way by perpetuating the racist association of the virus with Chinese people.
Chu contacted Banks and Moulton on Tuesday to ask them to drop or amend the bill. Both refused, she said.
"The president wins when we can't have a frank conversation about China," he said."We need to be able to call out his xenophobia and call out China's attacks against journalists and our troops at the same time." However, public health officials, including the World Health Organization, have cautioned against linking the illness with a location or an ethnicity. The WHO revised its own naming conventions in 2015 to avoid the unintended consequences of stigmatizing certain communities or industries.
Both the U.S. and Chinese governments have passed blame back and forth. U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump himself, have upped their use of the terms"Chinese virus" and"Wuhan virus," framing the outbreak as a Chinese issue. Pompeo urged G-7 leaders to, as well, according to a report from the German magazine Der Spiegel. They've also accused Beijing of withholding information.
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