Posted on 06/20/2019 12:46:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As U.S.-China friction escalates, the rhetoric in Washington has grown increasingly ugly and hostile. The Trump administration, concerned about intellectual property theft and other questionable behavior on the part of Beijing, has embarked on a program of targeting students and professionals of Chinese descent. Not only are these actions antithetical to America’s immigrant roots, they are damaging to U.S. interests and competitiveness. Stoking racial divides is exactly the wrong way to fight the problem.
The U.S. has long had policy differences with the People’s Republic of China, but the current White House and the national security community have ratcheted up those differences into a war on Western democratic ideals.
In his testimony before Congress last year, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said that Chinese students and researchers represented a “whole-of-society threat”; in other words, to the American way of life. Later, a State Department official, Kiron Skinner, racialized the conflict: For the first time, the U.S., she said, is facing “a great power competitor that is not Caucasian.”
This culturally charged, zero-sum mentality has already translated into anti-Chinese policies. Student and work visas for Chinese nationals have been curtailed. In early 2017, the Trump administration began whittling away at the Optional Practical Training Program, an important channel for Chinese students, especially STEM majors, wishing to stay and work in the U.S. Last year, Chinese nationals studying robotics, aviation and other high-tech subjects were issued one-year visas instead of five-year ones. The State Department also increased its scrutiny of visa applicants, causing major delays and uncertainty for tourists, students and for U.S. companies wishing to hire Chinese employees.
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Why should we educate our enemies?
Do the opposite of what ever they advise and you will do well.
I guess we can only look for non-existent spies from
Russia and not the armies of Chinese spies right under
our noses.
Chinese in this country are very often spies for China. They are instructed, especially professors and students in the engineering and computer sciences fields, to sneak vital info to China. We should be monitoring these people a whole lot closer than we are.
Then there’s driving Miss DiFi.
I defy anyone to implement a policy that fixes the problem based on the "fuzziness" of the proposals mentioned here. It's easy to speak in platitudes, but giving concrete proposals isn't easy, as evidenced by their absence in this article. Bitching about something, from Capitalism to corporate espionage, means you have a better way of doing it. To you Snowflakes who think Socialism is the answer, please tell me why every attempt to implement it in the past 200+ years has failed. And don't give me that Norway-Sweden crap...neither are Socialist countries.
America First. I think we need to limit foreign nationals in general and leave more room for American citizens (of every race/ethnicity...but citizens nonetheless) at our universities and institutions.
If there ever was an example of a sympathetic article for espionage,this was it.
It is a fact of life that most if not all Chinese students and entrepreneurs who have family in China feed information to the Chinese government. All Chinese high level techies and professors with family in China are almost all effectively spies.
DOES ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND TRULY BELIEVE CHINA WOULD ALLOW THEIR WEALTHY CITIZENS TO LEAVE CHINA AND SET UP RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES WITHOUT GETTING SOMETHING IN RETURN?
WAKE UP, AMERICA.
President Trump...
Get tough on China. For real. For three entire decades, every single person in America has been selling out our country to China.
Everyone.
It is high time, SOMEONE stood up for America.
Be that person. Please.
Wong way you mean?
Also, these freshly minted Chinese American citizens MORE EASILY INFILTRATE our sensitive military and tech industries due to their American citizenship status. YES, THEY ARE ALSO SPIES FOR CHINA!
You are absolutely right Jim. China sends people here specifically because they think it will benefit China - NOT because they want to broaden the cultural exposure and experiences of their citizens. There should be an absolute limit on the amount of STEM and biomedical research funding coming from US taxpayers that can be spent on foreign students/post-docs/doctorates. We should be promoting our own citizens first, at all times.
RE: All Chinese high level techies and professors with family in China are almost all effectively spies.
So, what do you suggest we do to the huge percentage of Chinese students ( which includes Taiwanese and Hongkong students ) who are enrolled in our STEM schools and doing research at our best research labs?
Do we expel and fire them all?
So, what do you suggest we do to the huge percentage of Chinese students ( which includes Taiwanese and Hongkong students ) who are enrolled in our STEM schools and doing research at our best research labs?
Do we expel and fire them all?
Wow, I’ve seen some broad brushes applied in my time, but “...every single person in America has been selling out our country to China”?!
You owe me and every member of this forum an apology.
If there ever was an example of a sympathetic article for espionage,this was it.
Hopefully, NSA or whoever looks at sympathetic articles for espionage, is keeping track of who posts it on the internet and why.
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