A pity that they can’t be required to remain there. They had no interest in America when they left. Let them be Citizens of the World outside our borders.
Americans who went to China were by the vast majority, young, individualist and pioneers looking for opportunity and to earn money. I know many. They were not “selling secrets,” they were not helping Communists. Many worked to establish American offices selling US products there.
Most learned that even with a supposedly reforming China, the Communist Party and its vast control network are never more than 1-2 steps away.
The idea they were somehow traitors is simplistic and ridiculous.
They learned the hard way that no matter how useful they are to the Chinese or how much the produce for them, they’re not Chinese and never will be which matters a Hell of a lot in China and always has.
Amen. I understand the frustration at the way the U.S. government (until now) has hampered American businesses, but the answer is to fight those stupid destructive government policies instead of moving overseas.