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History redux.

Jun 15, 2019 3:48AM PDT
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-is-purging-chinese-americans-from-top-cancer-research

Quite an article. As to intellectual property theft, no clear good/bad guys identified, except the one caught with bottles of new drugs. (He didnt steal research, but the expensively obtained result of research.)

Is there evidence that China does get a head start in research _and then_ refuses to share its progress? That would be dirty play, but I saw none.
Brings back memories of the Fifties' Red Scare. Remember The Great Loyalty Oath Crusade from Catch-22?

Sounds like the FBI is once again its own worst enemy. Loyalty can't be tested effectively except after the fact, in its absence. Has there ever been a spy who didn't salute his host's flag or didn't observe scrupulously its national holidays or didn't give all the right answers to interrogators?

BTW this sort of thing started before Trump, and is exacerbated by China's tunnel vision in foreign affairs and complete lack of transparency in all areas. The current Hong Kong flap is a good example. Xi's motive for the law change is clear, from other recent events (five HK booksellers still missing). Its responses to the demonstrations are so out of touch with reality as to make it look ridiculous to observers. Yet looking foolish does not affect its responses, as it often does in other countries "free" or not. It just doesn't care. Scary.

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