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By James A. Millward

Dr. Millward, a history professor at Georgetown University who specializes in China, wrote from Taipei, Taiwan.

President Trump’s first term gave us the “China Initiative,” a government program intended to root out Chinese espionage. The result was ethnic profiling of Chinese and Asian American researchers, flimsy cases that were eventually dropped and no prosecutions of scholars for spying or theft of secrets. President Joe Biden wisely eliminated it.

Mr. Trump’s current administration is back at it, however, demonizing Chinese citizens once again with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement on May 28 that the United States........

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