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This is a very solid introduction to how US suspicions of Chinese researchers is affecting US science, including Asian American scientists. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/fears-about-china-are-disrupting-american-science/618031/
Last year, I was supposed to review this fascinating book on a series of prominent cases involving intellectual properties disputes and alleged intelligence gathering in seed corn. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/549962/the-scientist-and-the-spy-by-mara-hvistendahl/9780735214286
I ultimately withdrew from the assignment, because I couldn't figure out how to write about the (very real) shady activities described in the book without contributing to a new Chinese Panic.
It's a bit like the accusations against atomic spies. Atomic espionage was both a real thing and a bludgeon to harass Jewish and/or leftie US scientists.
It's hard to talk about this in a thoughtful way when the events happened more than 70 years ago, close to impossible when they're still ongoing.
Anyway. Economic espionage is real; it's naive and/or hypocritical to think that China is the only player that does it; and attempts to stop it in the US are disproportionately harming Asian and Asian American researchers.
