In a chilling reminder of the dangers of unchecked nationalism, a Japanese mother and her child were recently stabbed while waiting for a school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. This horrific incident, hardly acknowledged by the government, is yet another example of the growing xenophobia fueled by the Chinese Communist Party. The attack, swiftly dismissed as an “accidental incident” by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, follows a similar pattern of violence against foreigners, including the stabbing of multiple Americans in Jilin Province earlier this month.