What tragic irony it is to see this bill ( https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1371) proposed today, seeking to ban Chinese students & researchers from STEM fields to protect "American ingenuity."
As I write,"Scientists are human beings with agency: They are not for any state to claim or gain... https://twitter.com/yangyang_cheng/status/1265652969258786816

...With their ethnicity appropriated by both governments, Chinese people in the U.S. are double-victimized, by an overreaching ancestral homeland on one side of the Pacific and a paranoid Washington establishment on the other...

...officials are busy asking people to prove their loyalty to a country, by birth or residence, what I'm really curious about is just what kind of country one should be loyal to...the only things borders are good at protecting are bigotry & self-delusion." https://supchina.com/2020/05/27/field-of-dreams/