Modification is not dismantling! It is not a promise not to target Chinese and Chinese Americans! It is foolish to equate a name change with dismantling. 改裝不是拆！ 不是承諾不針對華人和華裔美國人！ 將改名等同於拆除是愚蠢的. 「終止」用孑錯誤, 誤導!
Lipstick on a filthy pig. No amount of rebranding can change this monstrosity.
The US always rebrands/renames things when they are ashamed of them or when they are criticized.
School of the Americas–> Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC)
AirSea Battle–>Joint Access Maneuver in the Global Commons (JAM-GC)
Pivot to Asia–>Rebalance to Asia
OIL (Operation Iraq Liberation)–
Operation Iraq Freedom
Torture–>Enhanced Interrogation
etc. etc.
There is no dismantling. In Chinese we call it, sell dogs meat for lambs meat.
I don’t see any dismissal of all cases being filed, I don’t see an apology to all the scientists whose lives have been ruined, I don’t see ending the 2000 investigation of Chinese scientists. I don’t see releasing of those Chinese scientists who are sitting in jail for being coerced into pleading to procedural crimes that DOJ could not prove. . All I see is a name change.
AAJC can pat itself on the back. It can join the DOJ saying the China Initiative is being dismantled. I am shocked at how naive they are. But then they are all part of the propaganda perpetrated against China and Chinese scientists. That all Chinese people are spies.
It was Obama that began going after Chinese and Chinese American academics in the courtsin 2009 when a dramatic uptick was detected which continued into 2015 or 2016, as the report of the Committee of 100 released in 2016 showed.
Let us give pioneering credit where credit is due.
p.s. Not only is the China Initiative racist, but it is an attack on openness, transparency and “science itself” as those who wrote the letter defending Charles Lieber for researching with Chinese. Once again in the case of the China Initiative, the US invocation of those values is no more than flatulence of the mouth.
Johnson Choi Biz 