[origami777]

Normally I'm all for hiring the best and brightest from all over the world. But with the mission that China seems to be on, I think US startups should be wary of hiring Chinese nationals. Of course they are not all spies. But, it only takes one to fuck your company.

I don't know what the solution is. I don't think companies should flat out stop hiring Chinese nationals, because that's punishes the ones with good intent. But it's clear there is enough danger that you need some plan to take on the risk.

[vincnetas]

What makes you think that China can't recruit non Chinese nationals to spy for them? This agains reminds me about similar "bright" idea : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

[origami777]

Good point. I should have left the nationality out and just said that companies good security policies to protect their IP. The threats come from many places.

[StreamBright]

Interesting, I have seen more startups going down because of bad management (100% US born and raised managers) than because of Chinese agents.

[blahblahblogger]

It is interesting to see so many tech firms going well out of their way to hire competent engineers/scientists from China, even the ones who graduate from US universities.

Of course it's difficult to talk about the real issues associated with this, such as how China leverages family relations in China against expats abroad, or how they've made it a national priority to entice this sort of behavior.

The reason it's difficult is because it's on the borderline of dog-whistle racism and what not. But these are serious issues that should be examined.

[zachguo]

Anything worth stealing in US startups?

[quickthrower2]

The seed money?

[lvs]

"They" ... "the ones" ... "it only takes one" ...

It takes only one bigoted executive to screw up your company fairly well too, but I think we all know what to do about that one.

Edit: Fine, "bigoted" for the guy having a pedantic problem with the word "racism." Prejudice is prejudice.

[permatech]

nationalism isn’t racism.....

[permatech]

Nationalism != Racism