My openly vocal hate for the CCP, military past, and long history in China makes me more likely for monitoring by the ChiComs than most Chinese immigrants.
Most Chinese immigrants here are very apolitical, but those who still defend the CCP are a definite threat. There should not be ANY PhD or STEM research going on in any US University or corporations by any Chinese nationals at this point.
Even immigrants and students who hate the Party, and many do, do Beijing’s bidding because they all have family in China and family means far more to them than it does to Americans. Threaten their parents or their cousins and they will do anything they say and they are informed of the situation before they come here in case they don’t know deep down that is how it is.