Without an idea of how many cases were not dropped, it's hard to understand how valid what I feel you are implying is. There will always be false positives, so the existence of false positives is not surprising. It's upsetting and those people are owed reparations, but it wouldn't be unexpected.
Without any context it implies that the US is going on nationality motivated witch hunts, which might be true, particularly in the Trump era, but I also would be astonished if China did not have significant penetration into academia and American companies.
We know based on China's cyber operations that they are particularly interested in industrial secrets.
Given the existence of Chinese police operating on US soil, I doubt the characterization of witch hunts. I've read more than one compelling case of Chinese operatives courting IP theft too, including hearing one on NPR, which isn't exactly a conservative mouthpiece. China openly used organized crime to attempt to put down protests in Hong Kong in 2019. China has a history of arbitrarily arresting foreigners.
> We’ve now reached the point where the FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours. Of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country, almost half are related to China. -- FBI director Christopher Wray, July 2020
Should note that the talking points mentioned weren't in terms of for our against only that they are prioritized over production capabilities.
I think the lack of production capability is extremely detrimental to security. This should have been the major lesson from supply issues during COVID IMO.
Improving production independence shouldn't be a politicized issue and should be a broad concern. Not to mention the context of picking fights with relatively powerful foreign nations.
It's about capability more than current production. And given they're supplying arms to two separate wars, one of them against the country in question, it does matter.
I'm not supporting either war, or even applying either. The limitations on domestic production capability are absolutely concerning.
Not just in terms of arms, but medication and technology. This should have been a key lesson learned from COVID supply issues.
All charges were eventually dropped.
I wonder what will happen with this case.