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I'm not sure if that was necessarily racism though. I think because China is now seen more and more as an enemy and the professor was born in China, maybe that's why. Not excusing the the FBI, just questioning whether racism was at play. What if it had been a white Russian scientist? Would it have been different?

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Does that happen to Russian scientists in America often, though? Because there is precedence for baseless accusations against professors from China:

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

Though to be fair, there is also precedence of actual cases of espionage:

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

Though to be fair, there is also precedence of actual cases of espionage

This is literally the definition of racial profiling.

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