Commentary: Don't target Chinese in the US for Beijing's sins
by Dominic Ng, Los Angeles Times
Jun 20, 2019
3 minutes
As U.S.-China friction escalates, the rhetoric in Washington has grown increasingly ugly and hostile. The Trump administration, concerned about intellectual property theft and other questionable behavior on the part of Beijing, has embarked on a program of targeting students and professionals of Chinese descent. Not only are these actions antithetical to America's immigrant roots, they are damaging to U.S. interests and competitiveness. Stoking racial divides is exactly the wrong way to fight the problem.
The U.S. has long had policy differences with the People's Republic of China,
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