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when you spend years insinuating that every academic researcher, high tech employee/executive, investor, or random chinese national on vacation is potentially a
by inconceivable 3y ago
when you spend years insinuating that every academic researcher, high tech employee/executive, investor, or random chinese national on vacation is potentially a spy, i don't really expect the general public to object to the fact that they're being coerced by china into returning to china.
- nradov 3y agoChinese intelligence services absolutely do use those people to gather information through a "thousand grains of sand" approach. It has been very effective. That doesn't justify paranoid xenophobia but we need to recognize the national security threat that we're up against. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/spies/different.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/spies/dif...
- dan-rocks 3y ago[flagged]
- DANmode 3y agoHow many generations of "dissenter removal" do you need to do before this becomes the dominant position in a population?
- inconceivable 3y agowhy would i be surprised that a citizen of a country supports their country's government? they're not americans, they're chinese citizens.
- dang 3y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly posting nationalistic flamewar. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- inconceivable 3y agolol yeah, that's my point. they're all spies, so why should anyone care if there are chinese police stations sending them back to china?