Recent arrests raise questions of racial discrimination against Chinese scientists in the US
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210037
NPR : Over the past year several scientists and technicians who are US citizens but were born in either China or Taiwan have been arrested on suspicion of providing classified information to the Chinese government. One of the most recent is nuclear engineer Szuhsiung “Allen” Ho, who was arrested in April for alleged nuclear espionage. Ho’s lawyer, Peter Zeidenberg, says Ho and several other of his Asian American clients have been targeted by the Justice Department because of their race. Although it is well documented that Chinese espionage costs the US billions of dollars every year, the FBI denies initiating any investigation based on race or national origin.