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Re:Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of ha... by blunte on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:26PM (#21255050)
> Should Chinese citizens have lower access in US companies? At universities?

If they can be compelled to act as spies by their government, then Yes, they should have restricted access. It is unfair to an honest person to be judged by the actions of a few in power in their country, but such is life globally (even for US citizens... especially lately).

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Re:Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of ha... by fyfy18 on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:55PM (#21255180)
Rather than being compelled, what happens if the citizen is voluntarily spying for their government? And maybe it's not even their government, maybe their brother in law is an exec for a competitor back home, so they want to help him out. And rather than being Chinese, maybe the citizen is French.

https://www.france24.com/en/20110104-france-industrial-espio...

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Re:Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of ha... by boredishBoi on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:23PM (#21255290)
What if their brother in law is an exec at an American competitor? I don’t see how your example is relevant given we’re discussing governments spying/compelling citizens to spy for them.
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Re:Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of ha... by bigwavedave on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:32AM (#21256041)
Exactly. That's wildly different from being tempted to help out an in-law and conflating the two is disingenuous at best.
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