Cold-war-style suspicion of Chinese-American and Chinese academics
It&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s hard to see either, there&#x27;s routinely news of Chinese scientists and engineers caught with some kind of industrial secret stolen from their employer trying to go back to China in a hurry. Every time it&#x27;s mentioned people on HN react like some grand conspiracy theory was unveiled while it takes 15 seconds on google to find examples like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;-jc1n-second-scientist-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-glaxosmithkline-trade-secrets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;-jc1n-second-scientist-plea...</a><p>or<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.straitstimes.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;united-states&#x2F;ex-coca-cola-engineer-charged-with-stealing-secrets-for-chinese-firm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.straitstimes.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;united-states&#x2F;ex-coca-col...</a><p>it&#x27;s pervasive and it&#x27;s stupid to think it will stop on its own. China has been at war with us for quite a while, we just failed to recognize it because it is convenient for many not to do so, but we should behave accordingly.<p>Edit: since my comment was called &quot;inflammatory and nationalistic&quot; I&#x27;m going to add a link to a book that explains the war ongoing between China and the US, from an author that&#x27;s very much not either of those things:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Cool-War-United-States-Competition&#x2F;dp&#x2F;081298255X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Cool-War-United-States-Competition&#x2F;dp...</a>