Opposition to anti-China hysteria isn't anti-Trump. If there's anything Trump has done that Democrats have enthusiastically backed, it's his policies against Ch

Opposition to anti-China hysteria isn't anti-Trump. If there's anything Trump has done that Democrats have enthusiastically backed, it's his policies against China. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have given full-throated support to tariffs against China.[1][2] Even Bernie Sanders has taken a hardline stance, criticizing Joe Biden for being weak on China.[3] To his credit, Biden is one of the few prominent Democrats to have spoken out against the anti-China hysteria.[4] > The Chinese have been watched and accused of theft of IP for more than two decades, but it's only now open season on the current administration because the media loves to hate Trump. I'm sick and tired of it. We must be watching very different media. The media loves to beat up on Trump for other issues, but his measures against China seem to be one of the few things that receive widespread support across the political spectrum. > The Chinese have stolen plans for fighter jets, been banned from buying Xeon processors, have been accused of directly copying the AMD Zen chips via masks instead of producing copies based on specs like AMD intended during the sale, and many other such things which either happened or started to happen before Trump took office. I'm sure the Chinese government could make a very good "national security" argument for stealing fighter-jet plans. That excuse seems to work pretty well for United States government on all sorts of issues. All these claims of IP theft should be tried in court, and if there's something to them, the courts can impose penalties. What is not okay is hysteria and generalized suspicion of Chinese people. What happened at MD Anderson, and has happened elsewhere,[5] looks very ugly. > Anyone who believes this ought to be ashamed of themselves for falling for this garbage sensationalist journalism. I think that quite the opposite, a lot of people are going to feel ashamed of how far this hysteria went, and how innocent people's lives were turned upside-down because of American political angst, just as people felt shame after the Red Scare. 1. https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1125143336837206016 https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1125143336837206016 2. https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-on-trump-administration-s-new-tariffs-on-china https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statemen... 3. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/sanders-slams-bidens-china-trade-stance-in-2020-democratic-primary.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/sanders-slams-bidens-china-t... 4. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3008505/china-going-eat-our-lunch-joe-biden-dismisses https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article... 5. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/terminated-emory-researcher-disputes-university-s-allegations https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/terminated-emory-res...