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The article starts with:

>The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure.

So, uhm, ... what 2-way street are we discussing? and how do we deal with people with a single Chinese parent? or 4 Chinese grandparents? ... does it involve measuring skulls as well? this is going over the top...




The article is unnecessarily inflammatory.

Every example the author gives of a Chinese or Chinese-American academic investigated by the FBI had prior ties to Chinese gov't run "innovation" programs. Many of these programs exist solely to transfer (i.e., steal) foreign IP.


steal?

>Along the way, Wu developed close ties with researchers and cancer centers in China. She was encouraged to do so by MD Anderson. The center’s president in the early 2000s, John Mendelsohn, launched an initiative to promote international collaborations. In China, MD Anderson forged “sister” relationships with five major cancer centers, cooperating on screening programs, clinical trials, and basic research studies.

Instead of harassing employees doing their job, or research centers doing their job, how about if FBI want's to powertrip, they simply individually vote to make collaboration illegal, and only when it passes the legislative branch then prosecute? This is just framing people...


The idea that anyone person or entity should be able to 'own' information about curing cancer is such a moral abyss.

When someone talks about "stealing" in this context, they are revealing that they care more about their right to rent seek from the poor than basic human decency.


Just because an institution seeks to cure cancer, does that mean all their techniques, trade secrets, and knowledge that is unrelated to a cancer cure is up for grabs?

No one has cured cancer yet. If you steal from one of these institutions, what you are stealing definitely isn’t a cancer cure.


You have strange ideas about the FBI's legislative authority.


which is exactly my point: the executive has no legislative power, any desire to enact something into law can only happen through the votes of the employees as individuals as a small fraction of the entire populace...


I mean it's not like they're exclusively doing this to ethnic Chinese-Americans, just anyone associated with the PRC. You're taking it out of context.


I would presume it's people who were born in the PRC.




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