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This tactic could sorta make sense – if narrowly directed at "princelings" who are children of top officials, rather than top students we'd love to have stay in
by gojomo 7y ago
This tactic could sorta make sense – if narrowly directed at "princelings" who are children of top officials, rather than top students we'd love to have stay in the US. (I don't have much hope clumsy trade/immigration bureaucracies & grandstanding politicians can be that subtle, though.)
- hurrdurr2 7y agoAll this anti-China activity almost reminds me of the "yellow peril" at the turn of the last century...
- wavefunction 7y agoI would agree except that it's one hundred years later and there are Uighur re-education camps and social credit scores and new islands in the South China Sea with missile platforms and statements about reconquering Taiwan and... well.
- hurrdurr2 7y ago.. and during that time what has the US done? Throwing Japanese Americans into internment camps, overthrew legitimate governments and installing dictators who ran death squads, operated black sites around the world that tortured detainees... the list goes on.
- yourbandsucks 7y agoAnd the USS Maine definitely did sink in a Cuban port.
- gojomo 7y agoThere's enough mutual affinity, interchange, & commerce that this current political/trade spat hasn't had much of a racial character, in its rhetoric or reasoning, as far as I've seen.
- hurrdurr2 7y agoI do seem to recall the Trump administration being pretty lenient towards white supremacists and their views.