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Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by tptacek on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:27PM (#16165468)
There are 4.8 million Chinese-Americans in the United States. The last time we publicly charged one of them with espionage, the judge ended up publicly apologizing to them and the government cut a $1.8MM settlement. People complain about racism when arguments are rooted in racism.
Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:16AM (#16165652)
Not to mention the American resident we falsely accused of being a communist and then basically forced back to China to kickstart their rocket and nuclear programs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen

Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by shams93 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:58AM (#16165803)
Yup he worked with Jack Parsons, the entire original crew of rocket scientists we're driven out and Jack Parsons was on his way to Israel when he "accidentally" died in the middle of moving. One if the other engineers moved to France and became a famous french visual artist. The Chinese member of the team was thrown out for completely racist reasons and went on to found the Chinese nuclear missile program. The social cost of racism is so immense it's mind boggling. Without racism neither NK nor China would have nukes. I'm
Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by WillyOnWheels on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:43PM (#16169987)
I don't agree with your implication that shadowy intelligence agencies killed Jack Parsons, but the story of Jack Parsons is fascinating! I think he just mixed too many random rocket fuel precursors. Or maybe L Ron Hubbard really did successfully curse him. There are a few fun books written about this.
Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by galuggus on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:09AM (#16165840)
Didn't the pioneers of rocket science come from nazi Germany?
Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:31AM (#16165928)
Some, not all. The German scientists definitely gave us a huge boost, unfortunately Russia got most of the technicians.
Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by rdl on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:54PM (#16165568)
That one was badly done, but there have been several since then; eg Candace Claiborne which was slam dunk.
Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by tptacek on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:58PM (#16165584)
Was Candace Marie Claiborne secretly Chinese-American?
Re:Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informan... by rdl on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:03AM (#16166269)
Oops. I was wrong on that one, sorry.