F.B.I. Bars Some China Scholars From Visiting U.S. Over Spying Fears

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/world/asia/china-academics-fbi-visa-bans.html

By Jane Perlez
The New York Times
April 14, 2019

BEIJING -- Just as he had on previous trips, Zhu Feng bolted down his lunch at 
a Los Angeles airport before sprinting to catch his Air China flight back to 
Beijing.

Suddenly, two F.B.I. agents blocked the Chinese scholar at the boarding gate 
and ordered him to hand over his passport. They flipped to the well-used 
10-year visa to the United States and crossed out the page with a black pen.

"‘Go back to China,’" Mr. Zhu, a professor of international relations, recalled 
an agent telling him during that visit in January last year. “You will receive 
a notification.”

In the four decades since China and the United States normalized relations, 
Washington has generally welcomed Chinese scholars and researchers to America, 
even when Beijing has been less open to reciprocal visits. Republican and 
Democratic administrations have operated on the assumption that the national 
interest was well served by exposing Chinese academics to American values.

Now, that door appears to be closing, with the two nations ramping up their 
strategic rivalry and each regarding academic visitors from the other with 
greater suspicion -- of espionage, commercial theft and political meddling.

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