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Receiving funding from a foreign government isn't the issue, hiding it is. Do you actually believe that the Chinese government would find it acceptable if U.S.
by freyr 6y ago
Receiving funding from a foreign government isn't the issue, hiding it is.
Do you actually believe that the Chinese government would find it acceptable if U.S. scientists working in Chinese labs hid their ties with the U.S. government?
- coliveira 6y agoAre we now going to use the same policies attributed to a dictatorship? Moreover, there is no evidence that his is happening even there.
- scottLobster 6y agoActually there is evidence that these researches hid their ties to China/foreign governments, that's kinda what the article is about. Requiring disclosure of foreign ties is hardly a new or controversial procedure in democracies or dictatorships. Calling it "racist" is baseless, nonintellectual deflection, as is "well dictatorships do it, so we shouldn't!". Dictatorships also collect taxes and fund their military, should we stop doing those things too? If you're not part of the 50 cent army you certainly are taking pains to sound like it, because your arguments have ~50 cents of effort behind them.
- freyr 6y agoThe policy is simple and common sense: If you receive funding from a foreign government, disclose it. The fact that China is a dictatorship does not invalidate this policy. You seem to want it both ways: China is an innocent player that is being unfairly profiled when it suits you, and China is an evil dictatorship with bad policies when it doesn't.