Many Yellow Peril conspiracy theories have since been used, pitting “white” Europeans against an imagined and loosely racialised Asian “other”. In the 19th century, the term “Yellow Peril” was used politically to generate fear of people of Asian decent by depicting them as a threat to the “white” Western world, the term was originally used to encourage European empires to invade, conquer, and colonise China. This continued into the 20th century following the Japanese victory against the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War, this time the Japanese were used in the Yellow Peril trope, described as an Asian threat with aims to conquer, subjugate, and enslave the Western world. Is the Covid-19 origin the Neo-Yellow Peril ?
