Update on Part 1 of CCP, US Immigration, Espionage, etc.

Since I posted on Wednesday the world has published a ton of articles all agreeing with my position. OK, they aren't responding to me, we just all happen to be writing about the same topic. But it’s nice to know that the opinion that I developed in July, and which was rejected by an editor (in China), now seems to be more correct, or at least more in-line with what other scholars are also saying.Since Wednesday:Hoover InstituteSupChina NPR Good take (h/t SupChina) on why we are where we are.I would add here that it's not just that China has not accepted the US world economic order, the US disappointment in China is based on the now-outdated concept that neoliberal economic expansion and opening up would/should/always does lead to similar political opening up. It has not. And, to be honest, most Chinese I talk with don't think that it should either. Very few Chinese that I've spoken with over the years think that China is "ready for democracy." They may be disappointed or even angry with their govt, but that doesn't mean they think that today's China is ready to be democratic.EXACTLY what I’ve said—it’s not fair to them (the students), but it’s also not fair to not lay much/most blame for the current situation on the CCP itself."Every Chinese student who China sends here has to go through a party and government approval process," one senior U.S. official told Reuters. "You may not be here for espionage purposes as traditionally defined, but no Chinese student who’s coming here is untethered from the state.”