McCarthyism making a comeback in the US
When we learn that Chinese students and scholars were singled out as a threat to US national security at a congressional hearing on Feb 13, what comes to mind is nothing but the return of the notorious McCarthyism.
Asked by Senator Marco Rubio to comment on "the counterintelligence risk posed to US national security from Chinese students, particularly those in advanced programs in the sciences and mathematics", FBI Director Christopher Wray responded that Chinese students and scholars pose a national security threat that requires "a whole-of-society response".
It is shocking that such a high-ranking official as the director of the FBI should make such ridiculous remarks on such an occasion, and openly display such prejudice against Chinese scientists, professors and students working and studying in the United States.
