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We came here to chase the American dream,” Peng said. “We don’t want this to happen to any other family.”
The China initiative enacted during the Trump administration hasn't produced anything of value or turned up real "Chinese espionage" cases but it has successfully created a lot of anxiety, trepidation amongst the American-Chinese that's received the large brunt of often baseless accusation of colluding with China.
Ironically, this very idiotic and self-sabotaging program will drive a wedge and away a number of these highly-qualified, highly-accomplished academics, engineers to work for China which is a self-fulfilling prophecy and self-inflicted wound for the United States of America.
It seems that America hasn't truly learned from it's history. From the internment of American-Japanese at the height of WWII to their dumb and idiotic War on Terror America is unwilling to learn from it's mistakes because it has yet to truly be punished and pay for those mistakes.
American loves to be told a comfortable fantasy rather than confronting and acknowledging an uncomfortable truth. The degradation of the American middle-class has nothing to do with China but everything to do with your lying, corrupt politicians. If this truth is not embraced but instead proceed on ramping up the anti-China hysteria it is simply creating the unnecessary and in my opinion the self-defeating strategy of creating a monster it can't and will not be able to subdue let alone defeat and that's China.
China has been around the blocks for far too long to be tamed and controlled by a modern entity/republic called the U.S. It's past successes due to many factors have gone to their head assuming that their place at the top is forever. Hubris is a disease that has no known cure.