‘You’re treated like a spy’: US accused of racial profiling over China Initiative
by Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent from US news | The Guardian on (#5VZTX)
Trump programme to counter Chinese national security threats' continues to spread fear among academics with links to China
It was sometime before 7am on 21 May 2015 when Xiaoxing Xi, a physics professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, was woken by people pounding on his front door. Still not fully dressed, he opened the door to be confronted by about 12 armed FBI agents.
The agents burst into Xi's house, running about, shouting FBI, FBI". They pointed their guns at his wife and two daughters and ordered them to walk out of their bedrooms with their hands raised. Xi was handcuffed and arrested in front of his family.
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