Good:
The U.S. is imposing more restrictions on Chinese officials who come to the U.S. and have contact, for whatever reason, with American academics, researchers and local (state, country) government officials. These Chinese will have to notify the U.S. government of such contacts. Based on recent FBI investigations and prosecutions, this will make it more difficult to operate their massive espionage program that seeks details of how American patents are implemented as well as trade secrets (items that are not patented but are essential for operating a business or factory).
The post looks at China's Confucius Institutes as bases for espionage (and thought control). They have been on my radar screen for a while.
China doesn't allow the same freedoms that the Chinese exploited to spy on America. Um, duh? So their threats of retaliation in kind don't seem terribly worrisome. They'll do more?
Let's see if three decades of looking the other way as China robbed the West blind, in the hopes that economic progress would lead to democracy and rule of law in China rather than strengthening a thug communist state, is truly coming to an end.
