Washington is targeting Chinese scientists in America, and so is Beijing-Lowy Interpreter

 Washington is targeting Chinese scientists in America, and so is Beijing-Lowy Interpreter Beijing's own actions may be fueling Washington's suspicions. Xi Jinping has been amping up the United Front appeals to Chinese technology leaders and overseas communities and students, exhorting them to 'build a pro-socialist coalition outside the country.' Appeals to patriotic scientists to 'contribute to the motherland' or return home grow louder. China's concern for its diaspora is understandable, but the more Beijing trumpets its involvement in overseas 'bamboo networks', the more nervous other countries will become about 'fifth columns.' Almost half a million Chinese go abroad for study annually, and the conveyor belt of knowledge moves steadily in China's net direction (which may explain Shen's sangfroid and America's 'anxiety'). Cross-border scientific collaboration is a good thing collectively but John Mearsheimer (among others) has long foreseen the day when Washington sees a need to restrict Chinese nationals from studying and working in sensitive strategic fields. Mearsheimer writes a lot about tragedies, and here is one. By asserting ethnic solidarity with Chinese abroad, Xi calls their loyalty out and may disenfranchise them insteadhttp://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2015/05/27/Washington-is-targeting-Chinese-scientists-in-America-and-so-is-Beijing.aspx?COLLCC=1685367954&COLLCC=2646756066&COLLCC=1000623050&utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9876bd4919-Sinocism06_01_156_1_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-9876bd4919-29615013&mc_cid=9876bd4919&mc_eid=5935182a65