Was Einstein Racist or Descriptive?

Several publications have declared Albert Einstein's diaries tainted with racist stereotypes. He made a journey to the far east in 1923 and observed the mass of humanity in China, perhaps in Shanghai. He called the Chinese "“industrious, filthy, obtuse people” and compared them to robots"- quote of Einstein from the Guardian via Haaretz.

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/einstein-s-diary-from-asia-trip-exposes-unknown-racist-side-1.6175487

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44472277

Apparently the media are so desirous of deconstructive scandals and sensational headlines that they forget historical reality of an era and believe that Einstein should have viewed modern China circa 2018 with political sensitivity and pc language as if General Relativity had wormholed and superimposed 1920's and 2020s space-time coordinates. 

In 1923 China was in the midst of revolutionary issues with the Republican government. There was a revolution in 1925 and two Republican governments north and south helped drain the economy. The infamous Shanghai Green Gang bled the city. Dead bodies were common laying in the streets. Women and children were exploited. People probably were filthy and obtuse keeping their heads down and trying not to say anything that would be held against them at the summary war court and heresy trial.

Undoubtedly the Chinese were also industrious hard workers having little choice about taking it easy or cleaning up at the spa. They may have seemed robotic to Einstein who could not even speak Chinese. China was not the best place to be Chinese in 1923.   

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912-1949)

Einstein apparently liked the Japanese. A pure race he commented. One should not be racist by being against races pure or not. Japanese may have been more insular and defensive, enjoy baths and had a more orderly society with some good aesthetic (art and landscaping) values in the 1920s. Japan was 50 years into the Meiji Restoration and had a steadily increasing economy and industrial sector. Island nations can be places with swift progress or failure as the geography allows total government control. Japan was stable and would have resembled to a certain extent the German social environment Einstein was accustomed to rather than the disorderly chaos of China.

Einstein commented on the Chinese population growth, as have many others. The Chinese government finally forced one child families during the 1960s and forced abortion in order to halt population growth at just 1.3 billion souls. In the 1920s the appearance of a rapidly expanding Chinese population mired in social chaotic revolutionary strife with very corrupt leaders and widespread poverty must have seemed like a poor prospect to Einstein for all of humanity.

For pc and pr reasons the media seem historically obtuse, as if they were robotic and incapable of reasoning beyond their social-economic programming. That is fairly amusing since Einstein did not foresee the Second World War and holocaust. Ortega y Gasset foresaw the Second World War at least in his book ‘Revolt of the Masses’ published in 1929.

The reason China has had the population problems it does it that it is a very ancient society and was ruled more than 2000 years by imperial governments that viewed people as subjects and property. The living condition of the subjects was of no interest to the royals except as it served royal interests. Without peer development and equal private property ownweship rights for all, righteous physical spacing wasn't part of land development. Instead, people were bred like herring for royal use.