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Have Chinese spies infiltrated American campuses?

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Re: Have Chinese spies infiltrated American campuses?

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Most likely, but the explicitly racist China Initiative did a terrible job of catching them, because I surmise the goal was to disrupt legitimate Sino-US education links in general, which in some people's estimation is more significant than catching some spies. Can't really stop PRC from hacking institutional DBs from across the ocean, or transmitting knowledge back via 1000s of research interns, but can certainly dissuade leading educators from participating in PRC thousand talent exchange programs.

Re: Have Chinese spies infiltrated American campuses?

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How many years is a long history? How many years ago the world is under western colonization? To keep the wealth robbed around the world, "legal" is the term they use quite often. If a developing country needs development, they have to steal something, because it won't be given. As a developing country develop, it will in turn protect its interests. By then it will try to protect its properties (intellectual or whate…

Whatabboutism is pretty silly here. When was China a US colony? If it's ok for China to steal IP from the US, then why was it wrong for "western" countries in the past to steal from others? If it was wrong for others in the past then why is it justified now? It's either never or always ok. I vote for never myself. But if you think "revenge" stealing is justified against a country that never colonized them, then you a…

It is not what about, it is the way a developing country should follow in order to climb up the ladder game. I wish more developing countries can be smart and do not let others take advantages of them so easily.

If you give China enough time, it will lead the effort to protect IP to block other competitors.

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