[Hupriene]

I wonder if this isn't some long lingering reverberation of the interment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Is this the influence of the institutional memory of the US government security community?

Alternatively, this could be the natural result of defensive measures against a concerted effort on the part of e.g. the Chinese government to place people inside of an organization that deals with a lot of secure data.

It's probably reasonable to assume the worst (naked racism), but you never know.