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What nefarious goal could there be for this medical research? Are we at the point of zero-sum where a successful treatment in China is a loss for us? Sure, de
by refenestrator 6y ago
What nefarious goal could there be for this medical research?
Are we at the point of zero-sum where a successful treatment in China is a loss for us?
Sure, deport her if she lied, but I'd stop way short of 'nefarious' myself.
- zapita 6y agoThat doesn’t answer the question of why she attempted to conceal her identity. There’s also the question of why the PLA would bother to assign an active duty soldier, with instructions to break US law, if there wasn’t some purpose which the US government would consider nefarious. If this is just harmless scientific collaboration, then why is the military involved?
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> There’s also the question of why the PLA would bother to assign an active duty soldier This is a real reach; her non-fictitious employer was the Air Force General Hospital. Being employed by the military doesn't make you a soldier.
- refenestrator 6y agoThat's splitting hairs a little, unless she's legitimately a civilian. A military doctor could be referred to as a 'soldier', it's inaccurate but not wrong. My beef with the outrage on this is that she was studying 'treating brain disease' according to the justice department. This isn't a national security secret, and the occam's razor answer is she fudged the forms because she wanted to do the study sabbatical.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoIf you think the category 'soldier' includes military doctors, the question "why would the military bother to assign an active duty soldier to a medical research project" makes absolutely no sense.
- refenestrator 6y agoYeah, I think we agree on the shape of what happened here. It's the new cold war, everything must be propagandized.
- zapita 6y agoThank you for answering my question instead of grandstanding. I had missed that crucial piece of information.
- refenestrator 6y agoI wasn't trying to grandstand, sorry if it sounded like it, and cheers. Really respect this post.
- zapita 6y agoHonestly I do it too. We get conditioned to assume every disagreement or question is in bad faith, because most of the time it is... Then we pounce and it becomes a self- fulfilling prophecy. In this case I didn’t read the original material carefully enough and made a fool of myself, so can’t blame anyone for assuming I was asking in bad faith. By the way I agree with you that this topic is over-propagandized, by both sides. It makes it extra difficult to have good faith debates over it.