[youeeeeeediot]

In an April speech in New York, FBI director Christopher Wray described the reason for the scrutiny of ethnic Chinese scientists. “China has pioneered a societal approach to stealing innovation in any way it can from a wide array of busi­ness­es, universities and organisations,” he told the Council on Foreign Relations. Every­one’s in on it, Wray said: China’s intelligence services; its state-owned and what he called “ostensibly” private enter­prises; and the 130,000 Chinese graduate students and researchers who work and study in the US every year. “Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder at our expense.”

This has been going since long before the Trump administration, probably all the way back to the Clinton one.

[tehjoker]

The whole point of a research collaboration on global disease to "Yes! Please! Learn from, use, and improve our ideas!" The FBI framing this as a quasi-spy role is damaging human welfare for political purposes, which is their traditional role going back to their founding under Hoover. The environment in this country is getting progressively scarier.

[ETHisso2017]

There's also the broader question of whether it's morally right to push the US drug patent regime upon the rest of the world - in this case, before the patents or IP ever kick in from a legal perspective.

This isn't just a US-vs-China thing. It's also a US-pharma-companies-vs-sick-people-everywhere thing.