Trump programme to ‘counter Chinese national security threats’ continues to spread fear among academics with links to China
– the latest, from 5 November, detailing an alleged attempt by a Chinese intelligence officer to steal trade secrets.
Congresswoman Judy Chu says the US government has turned the China Initiative into an instrument for ‘racial profiling’.Judy Chu, a California Democrat and the first Chinese American woman in US Congress, said the China Initiative is an instrument for “racial profiling”. “[The government] has turned it into a means to terrorise Chinese scientists and engineers. Something has gone dramatically wrong,” she told US media in December.
For most of the three decades since settling in the US, Suo was not interested in politics. “My wife is a political junkie, but I wasn’t interested in it at all,” he said. But on 14 January 2021, the arrest of his best friend, Gang Chen, a fellow Chinese American scientist, changed that.Photograph: Wen Zeng/MIT/via Reuters
Supporters of the China Initiative argue that this China-focused programme is not completely without merit. They point to the
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