US' Cold War mentality behind economic espionage charges

The US Department of Justice charged five Chinese, including Zhang Hao, a professor from Tianjin University, with economic espionage and stealing state secrets in an indictment released on Tuesday. Comments:

The absurdity of inviting a scholar to attend a forum in the United States and putting him into custody at entry on an accusation is based on US' deeply rooted Cold War mentality. As long as this mentality continues, nations that hold different values to the US will always be considered adversaries and their citizens a potential threat to US interests. This accusation is just one of the many ridiculous things some boneheads in the US have done, and it seems they will do more until mutual trust is ruined, or until they are otherwise stopped.

china.com.cn, May 22