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Every time someone from China does something bad or just without thinking it through, it's painted as communist party espionage.

Our western media and governments really want us to see yellow spies everywhere.

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But it's not just people randomly doing these things. These people are targeted by official CCP programs which intend to do exactly what they're doing. The targets are often useful idiots, but that doesn't make it not espionage.

how is that different from gov/military backed US companies who steal talents from foreign countries?

by being passive racist, the US unveils to the world what they are doing for ages, and when it's others it's painted as evil

Yes, spying is practiced worldwide by just about everyone. I never claimed otherwise. But that doesn't mean it's tolerated. Every country wants to spy and not be spied on.

Is this a boilerplate response to someone bringing up the Thousand Talents program? Because "steal[ing] talents" doesn't make much sense in an English language context outside of Space Jam.

You'll be surprised if Aliens speak english

You got me there.

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