Last night, the Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) tweeted an off-colour remark using an anti-Asian slur in a headline about China’s president, Xi Jinping. As pictured in the screen capture above, WSJ publicized this article (now headlined “Crises Put First Dents in Xi Jinping’s Power“) with a tweet referencing the phrase, “a chink in the armor”. The phrase typically refers to an exposed vulnerability, but when paired with a story about Asian or Asian American people can take on the additional connotation of the anti-Asian slur, “chink”.