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Of course this investigation was only started because they already had the goal of targeting supposed "Chinese influence". I wonder if this would even be news i
by coliveira 6y ago
Of course this investigation was only started because they already had the goal of targeting supposed "Chinese influence". I wonder if this would even be news if they finally found that there was a lot of American researchers with ties British universities.
- cgriswald 6y agoYou wonder about British universities, because you are arguing under the assumption that race is the relevant factor, but your argument is weak. If you thought your argument was strong, you'd normalize across other significant variables, including the adversarial nature of the relationship between the United States and China. Then you'd pick a place like Russia instead, whose people are largely white, like in Britain, but whose government has an adversarial relationship with the United States. Of course, you know the response to finding out about undisclosed ties to Russia would be roughly the same.
- CommiesReeee 6y agoPicking Russia would be the same as picking China. You find nothing suspicious about the fact that the first President with an Eastern European wife was investigated for nonexistent "Russian ties", but previous presidents' ties with the Saudis have been mostly ignored?
- ipsocannibal 6y agoAgain what is with your almost intentional disregard for the point. It would be news, although less so, if undisclosed ties to the British government had been found. They haven't, however several to the Chinese government have. Disclosure is the issue here not the ties themselves. You sound like a 50 Cent Party propagandist at this point.