At the same time, there are a fair amount of public examples of Chinese academics taking US research budgets and running with the results. Or intelligence agent

At the same time, there are a fair amount of public examples of Chinese academics taking US research budgets and running with the results. Or intelligence agents posing as students and swiping everything from university systems. The Confucius Institutes seem similarly nefarious. There needs to be a balance. Cutting out every Chinese academic is absurd and xenophobic, but more scrutiny is needed. This issue isn't black and white; a more nuanced approach is required. To pretend that there isn't some merit to some of these ideas is just as absurd as saying that every academic is a spy. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/29/fbi-director-discusses-chinese-espionage-threat-us-academic-research https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/29/fbi-director-... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/education-or-espionage-chinese-student-takes-his-homework-home-china-n893881 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/education-or-espionage-ch... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3007903/china-determined-steal-economic-ladder-us-expense-fbi-chief https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3007903/chi...