Then you neglected to include the ethnicities/nationalities of the photographer, contributing authors, and editorial staff of the NYTimes. Wouldn't that be similarly useful context?
You didn't dig up some undisclosed connection between the author and the Chinese communist party, or other business interests that may taint their reporting. You are only suspicious because of their ethnicity.
And relax, as Avenue Q states: everybody's a little bit racist! But discussion on HN is meant to be substantiative, and part of that is trying to avoid ad-hominem attacks with a racist tint.