[andrestan]

It's not xenophobic to want or expect a country to protect its IP from a country known to openly flout such rules.

[anonnel]

Questioning why Chinese nationals are hired in tech is xenophobia. Period.

[WilliamEdward]

I think they were questioning why Apple would hire a non-US citizen to work closely on valuable US trade secrets.

[anonnel]

Right, xenophobia.

[gonyea]

It's not xenophobic to exclude people who are citizens of a country with no extradition treaty from working on sensitive projects.

[meowface]

Also consider a large number of Russian and Chinese spies have been American citizens born in America and who've lived in America their whole lives. Collaboration with a foreign government is not 1-to-1 with what country you're a citizen of.

[khuey]

It's certainly not 1 to 1, but it's hardly farfetched to believe that someone born in China and presumably still a citizen of it (and thus not of the US) is more likely to abscond to China with the proprietary IP of an American company than a random American citizen born in America who's lived there their entire life.

[pvg]

It would be but nobody really does that on the basis of extradition treaties anyway.

[chaostheory]

You should probably have made that clear in your original comment. I missed it myself.