[DiogenesKynikos]

The argument you're making is identical to the argument that was made for interning Japanese Americans during WWII.

There's a growing hysteria and paranoia about China, and suggestions that Chinese Americans should be put under blanket suspicion are incredibly disturbing.

[sajforbes]

You're employing a red herring - the internment of Japanese Americans is not relevant to a security and vetting procedure. Whatever justification they used shouldn't change your assessment of how the specific justification used here bears on the present issue.

I agree there is a problem of China paranoia, and your average Chinese American shouldn't be the subject of racist discrimination. While wanting to reduce this is admirable, national security is not the field to do it. The geopolitical forces shaping this shift are much larger than the national security apparatus - negating it at the expense of security is not their remit and never will be.

[DiogenesKynikos]

> your average Chinese American shouldn't be the subject of racist discrimination

Yet you're arguing for precisely that. Discrimination is bad, unless it's done in the name of national security, which will be defined by people who have an extremely aggressive, clash-of-civilizations foreign policy vision.