Well, if you were Asian and wanted to target white people in particular, while limiting damage to your own kin... then you would select for a pathogen to target Neanderthal genes , it is what makes such people unique from your own racial group.
It’s the Daily Fail.
The story is dumbed down.
There is Neanderthal DNA in every haplogroup including Europeans and Asians. Denisovon DNA in Pacifica Islanders. Basically everone except Africans.