Typically I would agree on the separation of nationality and race; but in the case of China its actually far more accurate to intrinsically tie the country and the race, given that this is the official position of the CCP.
No, it's factually not more accurate. The CCP's policies do not dictate reality, and the morally objectional ethnostate policy is both not actually the reality within China (given that about 9% of the population is not Han Chinese), and is not practiced by the majority of other nations/states in the world.
Most importantly, the author of the article is not based in China, or in any other nation that has an ethnostate policy, but in the US[1]. Therefore, even if you could make the argument that every person in China believes that states = races (which is clearly false), it still wouldn't apply to the author. Or, you know, almost anyone else on Hacker News.
So no, claiming that attacks on China are "racist" is still factually incorrect, and I really would hope that you'd invest the bare minimum of effort to verify that your claim is correct before throwing such an extreme accusation at someone.
Most importantly, the author of the article is not based in China, or in any other nation that has an ethnostate policy, but in the US[1]. Therefore, even if you could make the argument that every person in China believes that states = races (which is clearly false), it still wouldn't apply to the author. Or, you know, almost anyone else on Hacker News.
So no, claiming that attacks on China are "racist" is still factually incorrect, and I really would hope that you'd invest the bare minimum of effort to verify that your claim is correct before throwing such an extreme accusation at someone.
[1] https://www.alexkesin.com/p/who-is-alex-kesin