Comments on: Another professor arrested for lying about working with China

By: Milt

Milt — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 04:29:59 +0000

A few days ago I was listening to the news on National Public Radio (I know, why am I doing this…), and their reporter was talking about the recent discovery that there are many Chinese nationals working in our colleges and universities who — as has been revealed — are essentially committing espionage for the Chinese government. Finally, far too late in the game, the Trump Administration is beginning to push back on this.

The take-away from NPR, however, was quite a different one. Forget national security, the real “problem” with this effort is that by going after only Chinese nationals in academia — who, after all, are the ones who are committing these crimes — we are being “racist,” the unpardonable sin according to the left. Paraphrasing the late Gamble Rogers, this kind of thinking is the square root of insanity, but the left has been so successful at framing the narrative along these lines that we hardly know how to reply to them.

By: wodun

wodun — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:17:31 +0000

Just a few years ago, many in the space nerd community were saying any concerns with China were racist, that there is no competition with China, and problems with the two countries were due to the USA. Many space nerds still think this.

By: Andi

Andi — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:02:00 +0000

“I wonder how much technical information he passed to China’s space effort.”

— most likely all he had access to.

By: Phill O

Phill O — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:58:28 +0000

To my mind, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I remember the ties to the Pakistani nuclear bomb and Saddam Hussein’s foray into nuclear weapons.